38 CORVID7E. 



In the Jays the bill is strong, about three-quarters the length 

 of the head, and the commissure is straight. The naral bristles 

 are short and numerous, completely covering the nostrils. The 

 tail is of medium length and slightly graduated. 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Forehead and crown black ; tail blue barred 



with black G. lanceolatus, p. 38. 



1. Forehead white ; crowu black ; tail black. G. leucotis, p. 39. 

 c. Forehead and crown vinaceous like the 



back ; tail black G. lispecularis, p. 39. 



24. Garrnlus lanceolatus. The Bleak-throated Jay. 



Garrulus lanceolatus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 7; Gould, Cent. 



pis. 39, 40 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 579 ; Jerd. S. I. ii, p. 308 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 55 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 417 ; 



Brooks, S. F. iii, p. 253 ; Hume, Cat. no. 670 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 



iii, p. 101 ; Gates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, p. 2d 

 Garrulus gularis, J. E. Gray in Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. i, pi. 23, 



fig. 1 (1832) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 94. 



Garrulus vigorsii, J. E. Gray in Hardio. III. Ind. Zool. i, pi. 22 (1832). 

 Ban-sarrah of the Hillnien at Simla. 



Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, crest, and sides of head black; 

 remainder of upper plumage vinous-grey, brigh'ter on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; chin, throat, and fore neck black with 

 white shaft-streaks, the black terminating in a patch of iron-grey 

 on the upper breast ; remainder of lower plumage and the sides of 

 the neck vinous-grey, brighter than the back ; tail blue, barred 

 with black, tipped with white and with a broad subterminal black 

 band; primaries and secondaries black, barred with blue on the 

 outer web ; the primaries narrowly, the secondaries broadly tipped 

 white; the tertiaries grey, with a subterminal black band and a 

 white tip ; lesser coverts vinous, the median and greater black ; 

 primary-coverts almost entirely white ; winglet barred with blue 

 and tipped white. 



Legs and feet pinkish slaty ; bill pinkish slaty at base, yellowish 

 at tip ; iris reddish {King}. 



Length about 13; tail 6-5; wing 6; tarsus 1 '3; bill from gape 1-1. 



Many birds, apparently adult, have no white tips to the secon- 

 daries and tertiaries. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Hazara to Nepal and 

 over nearly the whole of Kashmir. The species appears to be 

 partially migratory, being found in winter as low as Dehra. In 

 summer it ascends to 8000 feet. 



Habits, Sj'c. Breeds from April to June, constructing a shallow nest 

 of twigs and sticks lined with grass. The nest is built in medium- 

 sized trees in a fork or close to the trunk up to 30 feet in height. 

 The eggs, three or four in number, vary in colour from stone- 

 colour to greenish white and are marked with sepia-brown ; they 

 measure 1 12 by '85. 



