426 On Birds collected in Transcaucasia. 



white-fronted and white-throated G. atricapillas of Palestine, 

 and seeing differently coloured (not white-fronted) specimens 

 from Asia Minor, he gave them a new name " G. anatolia." 

 As "Anatolia" is known to be inhabited by G. krynickii, 

 and as Seebohm expressly states that his G. anatolice differs 

 from the Palestine Jay in having the forehead and throat 

 not white, but of the colouring of the Common Jay, it 

 must follow that G. analolice is a synonym of G. krynickii *. 

 As a matter of fact, Mr. Derjugin collected in Northern 

 Armenia f (Batum and Artvin districts: Borchkha, Artvin, 

 Ardanuch) a good series of Jays, all of them differing at 

 a glance from other allied forms in having the forehead 

 entirely black, only some of the nasal feathers being lighter. 

 Further, these Armenian specimens differ from the true 

 G. krynickii in the sides of the head being much more richly 

 coloured. This Armenian Jay needing a new name, I call it 



Garrulus nigrifrons, n. sp. Armenian Jay. 

 [Garrulus melanocephalus, var. anatolice apud Derjugin, 1899, 

 Trav. Soc. Imp. Nat. St. Petersb. vol. xxx. livr. 2, p. 64, nee 



Seebohm.) 



Garrulus mystaceus, speculo caruleo unico, fronte pileoque 

 cum crista occipital! totis nigris, capitis latcribus in- 

 tense vinaceis, in Transcaucasia occidcntali australi ad 

 Tsehoroch fl. frecpaens. 



The differences between the Palrcarctic Jays with prevailing 

 black on the crest may be tabulated as follows : — 



I. Occipital crest uniformly black. 

 a. Cheeks find ears white. 



a'. Forehead black-spotted, hind-neck bright rusty- 

 red cervicalis Bp. Tunis. 



V . Forehead white, hind-neck pale, vinous-bud'. 



atricapillus Geoffr. Syria. 



* Of course, if birds from European Turkey and Asia Minor actually 

 prove to difler constantly from Caucasian specimens in the decidedly 

 greyer hind-neck and mantle, then Seebohm's name must hold good for 

 them (but not for the Chorokh birds in any case). 



t Armenia in zoological affinities ; historically the Chorokh country is 

 a part of Grusia. 



