142 CORVID^E. 



144, GaiTUluS leUCOtiS, Hume, Proc. A. S. B. 1874, p. 106; id. 

 Sir. F. ii. p. 443; Wald. in Bly. B. Burm. p. 89 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus- 

 iii. p. 99; War dlaw- Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p, 460 ; Hume and Davison, Str. 

 F. vi. p. 384; Hume, Sir. F, vii. p. 105. The BURMESE or WHITE-EARED 

 JAY. 



PLATE. 



Forehead and front of head white, with brown shaft streaks ; lores, sides of 

 the face, feathers above the eye, ear coverts, entire throat, rump and upper tail 

 coverts white ; crown and nape black, also the tail and a broad moustachial 

 stripe ; back ashy fawn colour, purer on the scapulars and lower back ; abdomen 

 and flanks ashy fawn colour ; vent and under tail coverts white ; under wing 

 coverts chestnut, the lower series ashy ; winglet, primary coverts and the outer 

 greater series barred with black and cobalt blue ; secondaries black, the basal 

 two-thirds barred with black and cobalt blue ; upper wing coverts chestnut ; 

 primaries black, margined with whity brown on the outer webs towards the 

 tip ; innermost secondaries deep chestnut at base ; tertiaries black, the inner 

 ones partly chestnut ; bill blackish horny, whitish at tip ; legs and feet flesh 

 colour ; irides wood brown (Davison). 



Length. 12*5 to I2'8 inches; wing 67 to 6'8 ; tail 57; tarsus r6 to 17; 

 culmen 1*25 to r$. 



Hab The Burmese countries, extending to Cochin-China. 



The Burmese or White-eared Jay occurs in Burmah and Tennaserim. 

 Davison procured it at Kyouknyat and also on the Mooleyit mountains. Capt. 

 Bingham at Kaukarit and Capt. Ramsay near Tounghoo, where, he says, it is 

 generally distributed on the hills and plains. Davison says he found, it 

 usually in small parties, occasionally in pairs or singly, going about the tops 

 of trees, one occasionally perching itself upon the very top of some tree in the 

 self-sufficient way in which only a Jay can. The habits are quite those of 

 other Jays. Food, insects. 



145. Garrulus bispecularis, Vigors, P. z. S., 1830, p. 7 ; Gould, 



Cent. Him. B . pi. 38 ; Henderson and Hume, Lahore to Farkand, p. 242 ; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 307, No. 669; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B, p. 416; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. iii. p. lOO ; Reid, Cat. B. Prov. Mus. Oudh, p 1 1 8. 

 Garrulus ornatus, J. E. Gray, in Hard. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 23. The 

 HIMALAYAN JAY. 



Above vinaceous fawn colour, paler on the forehead, which is almost isabelline ; 

 moustachial streak black ; under surface of body pale vinaceous fawn colour, 

 the throat and abdomen paler ; upper and under tail coverts and thighs 

 white ; least wing coverts vinaceous chestnut, deeper on the median series 

 which are ashy black at base, the outermost having some transverse rays of 

 grey ; winglet and outer webs of the primary coverts barred with black and 



