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cobalt blue ; other coverts black ; the innermost chestnut with a black tip ; 

 primaries black, edged with white on the outer web ; secondaries barred ex- 

 ternally with black and cobalt blue for two-thirds their basal length; tail 

 black with indications of grey bars near the base; "bill dusky horny; legs 

 dull yellowish ; iris red brown." (Jerdon). 



Length. 12 inches ; wing 6-35 ; tail 6 ; tarsus 1*55 ; culmen 1*15. 



Hab. The Himalayas, fairly common in the N.-W. Provinces, and Bengal ; 

 also Sikkim, Ladakh, and Nepaul. It is recorded as being abundant about 

 Darjeeling. 



146. Garrulus lanceolatus, Vig. P. z. S. 1830, p. 7 ; Gould, Cent. 



Him. B. pis. 39, 40; Hutton, J . A. S. B. xvii. pi ii. p. 5 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 308, No. 670; Hume, Nests and ggs, Ind. B. p. 417; Brooks^ Str. F. 

 1875, p. 253 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br.Mus. iii. p. 252. Garrulus vigorsii, J . E. 

 Gray in Hard. Ill, Ind. Orn. pi. 9. The BLACK-THROATED JAY. 



Whole head, crest, face and nape black ; neck behind, and back pale 

 vinaceous grey ; throat blackish with broad lanceolate streaks of white, the 

 foreneck shading off into blue grey, with a few nearly obsolete whitish streaks ; 

 rest of under surface vinaceous red ; scapulars like the back ; quills and 

 bastard wing black, tipped with white, the primaries edged with grey, and all 

 barred with deep cobalt blue and black on the outer web, the blue increasing 

 on the outer secondaries and extending to nearly the tips of these feathers ; 

 primary coverts white, black basally and banded blue on the outer web of the 

 first two ; upper tail coverts grey ; tail blue, narrowly barred with black and 

 with a terminal white band ; under wing coverts greyish black ; bill horny ; 

 legs yellowish ; irides reddish brown. In the young, the white shafts of the 

 feathers on the throat are not developed. 



Length. 12 to 13 inches; wing 5-7 to 6; tail 57 to 6 ; tarsus 1-25 to 1*5 ; 

 culmen I. 



Hab. The Himalayas, extending to Ladakh, Nepaul and Cashmere. Com- 

 mon about Mussoorie, Darjeeling, and Simla in small parties of 4 to 6. Breeds 

 in May. The nest is a loose structure of twigs, roots, and fibres Eggs 34 

 in number, stone grey with a greenish tinge, spotted and streaked with dark 

 and dusky. 



Sub-family II. FREGILIN^E. 



Bill more or less lengthened, slender, arched and bright coloured ; nostrils 

 covered with plumes; wings long and pointed. 



Gen. GraculUS. Koch. 



Wings long, but not reaching the tip of the tail ; bill long, curved, slender, 

 compressed ; the base of lower mandible feathered ; the nostrils covered 

 with setaceous plumes ; 4th and 5th quills longest ; tarsus robust, strong. 



