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JAY. 
PLATE L. 
Garrulus glandarius, 2 : : FLEMING. SELBY. 
Corvus glandarius, : : : . Pennant. Montacv. 
Tue nest is placed in a tall bush ‘or, hedge, generally 
at a not greater elevation than about twenty or thirty 
feet from the ground, and sometimes less. It is of an 
open shape, formed of sticks and twigs, and well lined 
with small roots, grasses, and horse-hair. Some are 
much more cleverly constructed than others. 
The eggs, five or six in number, are greenish or 
yellowish white, freckled all over with two shades of 
light brown. 
They vary occasionally both in size and in degree of 
polish, as well as in the ground colour. 
Professor Thieneman figures six, which vary as 
follows :— 
One is of a light yellowish olive brown colour, 
mottled all over with somewhat darker markings. 
A second has a yellowish green tinge in its ground 
colour, which is mottled similarly to the last named. 
A third is of a more ‘uniform general tone, the ground 
colour being greenish and somewhat darker, and the 
markings less visible upon it. 
A fourth is of a pale ground colour, yellowish white, 
much marked at the lower end with dark yellowish 
brown, and slightly mottled and speckled over the 
