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These eggs are nearly all very heavily marked ; many are 

 globular ovate or about oval, while others are elongated ovate. 

 Green eggs are rather rare, most of the eggs having a clayey- 

 brown ground-colour ; but two green eggs obtained on the 

 25th of June are miniature dark Magpie's eggs, 



11. Garrulus glandarius diaphorus La Touche. 



Garrulvs diapliorus La Tcnichej Bull. B.O.C. vol. xxxv. 

 1915, p. 98. • 



The Chihli Jay differs from Garrulus brandti of Manchuria 

 in being on average more lightly streaked on the crown, 

 in having the sides of the head unspotted, the lores generally 

 unmarked, and the back often much suffused Avith vinous. 

 The under parts are more washed with rufous than in the 

 Manchurian Ja}', only the innermost secondary is marked with 

 chestnut, and the bill is distinctly smaller. The most striking 

 difference, however, is in the edging of the primaries. 

 This is complete in the Manchurian Jay, but in the Chihli 

 bird the base of the primaries showing beyond the covertSj 

 beginning from the 3rd, 4th, or 5th primary, is black, the 

 innermost primaries being spotted with blue. A black patch 

 is thus formed, just under and beyond the speculum of the 

 secondaries, which is of variable extent, the edging of the 

 flight-feathers being often no more important than in the 

 south China Jay (G. sinensis). Two adult females taken in 

 a locality just beyond the Great Wall show very little 

 difference from the ordinary G. brandti, the extent of black 

 on the wing being very small and the back quite as pure 

 grey as in that bird. Ten other specimens (nine skins and 

 one live bird) from the mountains some twenty to forty miles 

 north of Chinwangtao, and a skin from the Tung Ling 

 forests, are more or less typical. There is no doubt that, as 

 suggested by Mr. Bannerman in a footnote to my description 

 of this Jay, the bird is a subspecies of G. glandarius^ and it 

 will doubtless be found to merge completely, in north-east 

 Chihli, with G. g. brandti. In the same way it is to be 

 expected that in south-west Chihli or on the borders of the 

 north-west range of G. sineiisis it will approximate very 



