GARRULUS. 141 



deep rolling metallic note which they continually utter as they move 



tree to tree. They are excessively restless, and always on the move flying at a 



considerable height. They restrict themselves to the evergreen forests." 



Gen. Garrulus. Briss. 



Bill moderately compressed, short, thick, as high nearly as broad ; nostrils 

 covered with incumbent bristles ; wings and tail about equal in length ; secon- 

 daries moderately long ; second primary about as long as the secondaries ; 

 culmen decurved. 



143. GarrulUS atricapilluS, Geoffr. St. Hilaire, Etud. Zool. fasc. 

 i. ; Dresser, B. Eur. part xx. Garrulus melanocephalus, Gene. Mem. Acad. 

 Torino, xxxvii. p. 298 ; Bree. B. Europe ; Blf. Eastern Persia, vol. ii. p. 265 ; 

 Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 206; Murray, Zool. &c., Sind, p. 173 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. iii. p. 97. The BLACK-HEADED JAY. 



Adult Female. General colour above clear vinaceous, washed with grey ; 

 the rump and upper tail coverts white (wings and tail much as in G. cervi- 

 calis) ; wing coverts grey, the least coverts barred with chestnut, the median 

 series broadly chestnut at tip ; the greater series velvety black, the outermost 

 barred with blue and black ; the bastard wing and primary coverts cobalt 

 blue, narrowly barred with black ; quills brownish black, externally greyish 

 white ; the secondaries white for two-thirds of the outer web, with slight 

 indications of blue bars, the innermost black, inclining to chestnut on all but 

 the tip of the last secondary ; tail brownish black, bluish grey at base, and 

 barred with the same colour for more than half the length of the centre 

 feathers ; nasal bristles white, washed with vinaceous at the tip ; forehead, 

 feathers round the eye, a broad eyebrow and the sides of the face and neck, as 

 well as the throat, white ; a broad malar bar of black ; rest of under surface 

 pale vinaceous, deeper on the sides of the body and under wing coverts, and 

 inclining to buffy white on the centre of the abdomen, thighs and under tail 

 coverts. 



Length. 12*7 inches ; culmen 1*2 ; wing 6' 7 ; tail 6. 



Adult Male. Similar to the female but showing less grey on the back and 

 rather more on the chest ; the face and throat sometimes washed with a vinous 

 tinge. 



Length. 14-5 inches; wing 7-6; tail 7; culmen 1-4. (Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. Mus. vol. iii. pp. 97, 98.) 



Hab. Sind, on the hills dividing Sind from Khelat (Hume). Syria and 

 Palestine eastwards into Persia (Sharpe). Mr. Hume, in vol. i. p. 206 of Stray 

 Feathers, states that he satisfied himself from the description given him of this 

 bird, that it occurs on the hills dividing Sind from Khelat. I have no specimen 

 from Sind, nor has Mr. Hume; but I give the above description of the bird to 

 help its identification if met with. 



