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GAEEULUS BEANDTI. 



(BRANDTS JAY.) 



Garrulus brandtii, Eversmann, Add. Pall. Zoogr. iii. p. 8 (1843). 

 Garrulus brandtii (Eversm.), Hartlaub, Eev. Zool. p. 52 (1845). 



Borovaya sorochka, Eousha, Russian ; TJrman soeskan, Bashkir ; Kenia, Ziranin. 



Figura unica. 

 Whitely, Ibis, 1867, pi. iii. 



Ad. ala caudaque ut in G. glandario picturatis : pileo cristato et collo postico lsete cinnamomeo-rufis, hoc 

 lsetiore, pilei plumis cristatis medialiter nigro striatis : supercilii plumis albido notatis : facie laterali 

 antica, regione opththafmica genisque nigris : regione parotica postica, facie laterali reliqua et collo 

 laterali lsete ciiraamonieo-rufis nuchae concoloribus : dorso toto cineraceo, uropygio vix vinascente : 

 supracaudalibus albis : subtiis ut in G. glandario coloratus, seel paullo sordidior : rostro brunnescenti- 

 nigro : pedibus cinerascenti-brunneis : iride pallide violascenti-brunnea. 



Adult Male. Head and nape rich rufous-red, the feathers on the crown elongated, forming a crest, and 

 having broad black centres on the terminal half; back and scapulars ashy grey, lighter and washed 

 with buff towards the rump ; upper tail-coverts white ; tail black, the outer feather on each side 

 slightly washed with brown ; wings as in Garrulus glandarius ; lores and a broad patch from the base 

 of the bill, passing downwards by the eye and bordering the upper part of the throat, jet-black; 

 chin and upper part of the throat buffy white ; lower part of the throat rufous-buff, shading off into 

 pale greyish rufous; this latter colour pervades the underparts to the vent, which, with the under 

 tail-coverts, is pure white; under wing-coverts dull rufous-buff; beak blackish brown; iris light 

 bluish red or violet-brown; legs dull greyish brown. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 6-9, 

 tail 6 "2, tarsus 1"55. 



Nestling (Meves in epist.). Differs from G. glandarius far more in this plumage than in the adult dress; 

 the head and nape are light rusty yellow, and the crest is much shorter than in the latter ; the 

 feathers on the forehead and crown have faint blackish points, whereas in G. glandarius the markings 

 are very broad black stripes along these feathers, and are especially conspicuous on the whitish fore- 

 head, giving a very different appearance to the two species. 



Amongst the Asiatic forms of our common European species there are a few which are met with 

 just within the limits of the Western Palsearctic Region ; and one of these is the present bird, 

 which meets its western representative in that portion of Russia which adjoins the Ural range. 

 Mr. W. Meves, who has just returned from a visit to the Ural, where he found this Jay, 

 writes as follows : — " The first of these birds that I met with was a young male in nestling 

 plumage, which I procured on the 2nd of July in a wood near Ekaterinburg ; it was seated on 

 a telegraph-post, from which I shot it. On the 4th of August, when near Soijmensk, on the 



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