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JAY. 



PLATE L. 



Garrulus glandarius, FLEMING. SELBT. 



Corvus glandarius, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



THE nest is placed in a tall bush or hedge, generally at a not greater 

 elevation than about twenty or thirty feet from the ground, and some- 

 times less. It is of an open shape, formed of sticks and twigs, and 

 well lined with small roots, grasses, and horse-hair. Some are much 

 more cleverly constructed than others. 



The eggs, five or six in number, are greenish or yellowish white, 

 freckled all over with two shades of light brown. 



They vary occasionally both in size and in degree of polish, as well 

 as in the ground colour. 



Professor Thieneman figures six, which vary as follows: 



One is of a light yellowish olive brown colour, mottled all over with 

 somewhat darker markings. 



A second has a yellowish green tinge in its ground colour, which is 

 mottled similarly to the last named. 



A third is of a more uniform general tone, the ground colour being 

 greenish and somewhat darker, and the markings less visible upon it. 



A fourth is of a pale ground colour, yellowish white, much marked 

 at the lower end with dark yellowish brown, and slightly mottled and 

 speckled over the remainder of the surface with lighter marks of the 

 same. 



A fifth is still paler, without the dark marks at the base, but mottled 

 all over with freckles of light brown. 



A sixth is nearly white, scarcely marked at all with minute specks 

 of pale yellowish brown. 



