162 Zoological Society : — 



PeRICROCOTUS GRISEOGULARIS, Gould. 



Male : forehead, crown of the head, back of the neck, back, 

 shoulders, and two central tail-feathers sooty black ; wings black, 

 with an oblique bar of scarlet across the primaries and secondaries, 

 near their bases ; throat and ear-coverts light grey ; chest, abdomen, 

 flanks, under tail-coverts, and rump rich scarlet ; lateral tail-feathers 

 black at their bases, and scarlet for the remainder of their length ; 

 thighs blackish brown ; bill and legs black. 



Total length, 6| inches; bill, ^; wing, 3^ ; tail, 3J ; tarsi, f. 



Female : throat light grey, as in the male ; crown, ear-coverts, 

 back, and shoulders deep leaden grey ; rump sulphur-yellow ; chest, 

 abdomen, under tail- coverts, the oblique band across the wing, and 

 the tips of the outer tail-feathers rich Indian yellow ; bill and legs 

 black. 



Remark. — This species is somewhat allied to Pericrocotus sau- 

 laris, but differs from that bird in its clearly defined throat-mark 

 and other characters. 



Garrulus TAivANUS, Gould. 



Feathers covering the nostrils, a narrow bar on the forehead, and 

 a longitudinal mark down the cheeks black ; crown of the liead, 

 nape, back, and all the under surface vinous brown, tinged with grey 

 on the centre of the back ; rump and under tail-coverts white ; 

 primaries black, fringed on their outer margins with greyish white ; 

 the secondaries have the usual speculum of blue disposed in broad 

 bars on their outer webs, and a patch of chestnut on the inner 

 margin of the two shortest feathers, as in most of the true Jays ; 

 shoulders and spurious wing alternately barred with fine lines ot blue 

 and black ; tail black ; bill black ; tarsi and toes flesh-colour. 



Total length, 10 J- inches; bill, I|; wing, ^ ; tail, ^ ; tarsi. If. 



Retnark. — This very distinct species, the smallest of the genus I 

 have yet seen, has the same general colouring as the Garrulus bispe- 

 cularis of the Himalayas and the G. sinensis of China, but differs 

 from both in its smaller size and in the black colouring of the feathers 

 covering the nostrils. 



Urocissa CjErtjlea, Gould. 



Crown of the head, nape, cheeks, throat, and chest j et-black ; body, 

 both above and below, and the thighs blue, of a cobalt tint in certain 

 lights; all the primaries and secondaries fringed with white at their 

 tips ; upper tail-coverts light cobalt-blue, with a broad bar of black 

 at their tips; two centre tail-feathers cobalt -blue, broadly tipped 

 with white ; the lateral feathers blue at their bases, to which suc- 

 ceeds a broad band of black, beyond which they are snow-white ; 

 bill and legs blood-red. 



Total length, 21 inches; bill, 1|-; wing, 7i ; tail, 14^; tarsi. If. 



Retnar k. — In size this fine new species is about equal to the Uro- 

 cissa sinensis, but it differs from that and every other member of the 

 genus in its stouter bill and in the blue colouring of the entire body. 



