538 Dr. C. B. Ticeburst on [Ibl^ 



3. Dendrocitta vagabunda saturatior, Ticeluirst, Bull. 

 B. 0. C. xlii. 1922, p. 5G. Type-loc. : Kaukareik Mts. 



Very distinct from both the above races are the birds from 

 Kaukareik Mts. in the Amherst district of Lower Burma, 

 whence there is a large series in the British Museum. All 

 these birds can be picked out a glance, the upper parts being 

 browner, more " saturated " in colour than the typical race. 

 The contrast between the head, nock, and mantle colorations 

 is almost lost. Mantle dark brown, not so orange-red. 

 About 20 examined : wing 138-152. Birds from Amherst 

 a[)proach this race (the few I have seen), but so far as one 

 can judge, saturat'ior is confined to Kaukareik Mts., by which 

 I suppose are meant the Dawna Range. It is not apparently 

 found on Mulyit Mt. {vide S. F. vi.). Bingham (S. F. ix. 

 p. 191) notices a darker variety which he shot at Kaukareik, 

 but says he shot an ordinarily coloured one in the same tree ; 

 however, all from this locality are the same, as exemj)lified by 

 the birds in the British Museum. Binoham remarks on the 

 diversity of forest in this neighbourhood — dry, moist, ever- 

 green, and teak ; and maybe this Trec-Pic is confined to one 

 particular (moist?) kind of forest. 



There is a specimen of ]>. leucogaster in the Kaiachi 

 Museum labelled " Kotri." It is an ancient specimen 

 and the locality must be incorrect. Needless to say, this 

 south Indian bird has never occurred in Sind, nor ever 

 likely to. 



Hume satisfied himself that a Jay, apparently from de- 

 scription Garrulus melanocejjJuilus Gene. (=(?. atricapillus) , 

 occurs in the Khirthar range. In the Karachi Museum are 

 two specimens labelled " G. melanocephalus Jacobabad." 

 These old specimens (in worn breeding dress!) certainly 

 never cam-e from Sind at all, and were wrongly labelled as to 

 locality and as to species, for they appear to me to be 

 G. lanceolatus ! No Jay is known in Kelat or in the juniper 

 forests of Beluchistan, and I am certain no Jay can inhabit 

 the Khirthar. 



