252 JAYS. 



black, tipped with white, the white tips increas- 

 ing in size and extent towards the outside, the 

 under tail coverts pure white ; the remaining parts 

 of the plumage rich umber-brown, with a purplish 

 tinge, having the tip of each feather marked with 

 a large oval spot of white ; on the throat the spots . 

 are narrow, but under the eyes, and on the sides 

 of the neck, they are nearly confluent. In this 

 species the bill is straighter and more subulate than 

 in that from alpine India, and the claws on the 

 centre and hinder toes are much more slender 

 and lengthened. Length rather more than eleven 

 inches. 



The Jays composing the next sub-family of the 

 Corvidce, are generally of much more gaudy 

 plumage than any of the preceding, and at the 

 same time are more arboreal in their habits. 

 The old genus has been divided into sub-genera, 

 some of which from warm latitudes are of very 

 beautiful plumage. Our British example belongs 

 to the old form, or true Jays, a group which 

 rather affects a temperate and sub-alpine region, 

 and of which the principal extra European species 

 have been chiefly found in the mountainous re- 

 gions of India. 



GARRULUS, Willughby. Generic characters. 

 Bill rather short, straight at the base, tip 

 bent and distinctly notched, commissure 

 straight, nostrils covered and protected by 

 short bristly feathers ; wings rounded, first 



