62 CORVID^E. 



Distribution. The hills of Burma from the Kachin Hills in the 

 north-east, through the Shan States, Karen Hills to Tenasserim. 



Nidification. This bird breeds in great numbers all round about 

 Maymyo, and its nests and eggs have been taken by many collec- 

 tors. The nests are wide, untidy cups of twigs, grass and roots, 

 and the eggs are like those of G. lanceolatns but very much 

 larger, averaging about 33'0 x 23-0 mm. It appears to nest in com- 

 munities. The breeding season commences in the end of March 

 and lasts up to tlie end of May. Three to five eggs are laid, 

 generally four. 



Fig. 15. Head of Gr. I. leiicotis. 



Habits. Pound principally between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and 

 keeping much to pine and dry deciduous rather than to evergreen 

 forest; there is little otherwise in the habits of this Jay which 

 calls for remark. Harington found it very common in the oak 

 forests near Maymyo. and obtained six or seven nests close to 

 one another in quite small patches of forest. 



(41) Garrulus leucotis oatesi. 



SHAHI-E'S JAY. 

 Garrulus oatesi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C., v, p. 44, 1896 (Chin Hills). 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. Like the Burmese Jay but has the anterior crown 

 and crest white, broadly streaked with black instead of wholly- 

 black. 



Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in G. I. leucotis. 



Distribution. Upper and lower Chin Hills right up to the 

 borders of Manipur and Looshai and probably inside these 

 countries also, though the Chindvvin and Irrawaddy rivers may 

 prove to be its west and eastern boundaries. 



