EARLY SPRING IN SAVERNAKE FOREST 235 



Again and again, when watching them at 

 Savemake and at a few other places where I 

 have found them in numbers, I have been re- 

 minded of the description given by Alfred Russel 

 Wallace of the bird of paradise assemblies in 

 the Malayan region. Our jay in some things 

 resembles his glorious Eastern relation ; and 

 though his lustre is so much less, he is at his 

 best not altogether unworthy of being called the 

 British Bird of Paradise. 



