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from the gape continued under the ear-coverts and involving 

 a portion of these ; the rest of the plumage is grass green, 

 brighter below, much darker above ; the whole of the chin, 

 throat and cheeks, the forehead, a narrow stripe over the black 

 supercilium, the feathers immediately under the eye, and the basal 

 portion of the ear-coverts, tinged and more or less intermingled 

 and overlaid with turquoise blue ; the lower surface of the 

 tail is a dark blue green ; the primaries and secondaries are 

 a blackish brown ; the earlier primaries, Avith the outer webs above 

 the emarginafcions only, the rest and the -secondaries with the 

 whole of the outer webs, of the same dark green as the upper 

 surface of the tail ; the tertiaries with almost the whole of both 

 webs of this color ; the inner webs of the quills margined 

 with pale clayey yellow. Most of the feathers of the back and. 

 upper tail-coverts fringed with a paler shade of green. 



The following five species, the four first of which were 

 obtained by Mr. Davison, were exhibited by me and briefly 

 described in a paper read at the Asiatic Society of Bengal on 

 the 1st May. I now give more full and formal descriptions: — 



Garrulus leucotiS, Eume. Pro. A.S.B., May 1st, 



1874. 



Occiput and nape black ; ear-coverts and chin to breast white ; no white 

 patch on secondaries, which are barred with blue like the primary 

 coverts. 



The very handsome Jay, to which I have given the above 

 specific appellation, and which in some respects recalls G. 

 atricapillus, Greof. St. Hil., was obtained in the hills of the 

 Salween district of the Tenasserim province near Kyoukuyat, Oty 

 at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, where it appeared to be the / 

 local and only representative of our familiar European species. 



The following are the measurements (recorded in the flesh) 

 and description of a female : — 



Length, 12*5 ; expanse, 20*5 ; tail, 4*82 ; wing, 655 ; tarsus, 

 1*55 ; bill, from gape, 1*45 ; bill, at front, 1*15 ; weight, 5*25 oz. 



The legs and feet are whitish horny ; the bill blackish horny, 

 whitish at tip ; the irides wood brown. 



