GAKRULUS GLAN DARIUS. 81 



Head dark brown ; general colour clove-brown, most of the feathers of 

 breast, sides, and underparts spotted with a triangular white mark. Rump 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform brown. Tail blackish, tipped with white. 

 Length 14 inches. 



73. Garrulus glandarius (Linnseus). The "West-European 

 Jay. 



Spanish. Arrendajo. 



This British Jay is not record3d by Favier from Morocco ; nor 

 did I obtain any species of Jay on the African side ; but Captain 

 Savile Reid, in February 1883, brought home a specimen, one of 

 three obtained by Olcese near Tangier. The Editors of the 

 ' Ibis,' 1885, p. 246, examined this bird, and considered it a cross 

 between G. glandarius and G. cervicalis. We may reasonably 

 assume that they sometimes cross the Straits, as they occasionally 

 appear at Gibraltar in winter. Four frequented the Alameda 

 and other gardens in the south from about the 10th of November, 

 1870, to the 4th of April, 1871 ; and I saw another in March, 

 1872 ; this last bird did not linger about for more than a few 

 days. 



This Jay is very plentiful near Gibraltar in the Cork-wood, and 

 in the wooded valleys and hill-sides up to a considerable elevation. 

 At the same time it is rather local ; and though many are 

 resident, they are more abundant in the winter months. 



They nest in some numbers in the Cork-wood, laying their 

 eggs early in May ; and, at that season particularly, they are 

 easily decoyed within shot by secreting one's self in thick cover 

 and imitating either their call or the squeal of a wounded rabbit. 



Throat white ; crown with black streaks ; feathers of forehead and crown 

 edged with white ; back vinaceous ; outer web of wing-coverts barred with 

 blue and Hack, inner web black ; tail often barred slightly at the basal end 

 in the same manner as the outer web of wing-coverts (this is not the result 

 of age, birds in first plumage occasionally being so marked) ; iris pale blue. 

 Length 14 inches. 



