THE BURMESE JAY. 
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some of the secondaries tipped with pale blue and with a band o£ black in 
front of the tips. 
Bill red ; eyelids yellowish brown^ the edges red ; legs coral-red ; iris 
blood-red ; claws dull red ; inside of the mouth reddish flesh-colour. 
Length 15 inches_, tail 8^ wing 5*9, tarsus 1'7, bill from gape 1*6. The 
female is of the same size. 
The plumage of this bird changes after death, and also in captivity, 
from green to dull blue; and the red on the wings also undergoes a change 
under the same circumstances, becoming much duller. G. minor, 2l sub- 
species from Sumatra, is rather smaller. 
The Green Jay is distributed over the whole of British Burmah from 
Arrakan down to Mergui in Tenasserim, being confined chiefly to the- hill- 
forests. I found it abundant on the Pegu hills, but did not observe it in 
the plains. Mr. Davison procured it in Tenasserim as far south as Mee- 
tamyo, and Capt. Bingham observes that it is common in the Thoungyeen 
valley. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay records it from the Karin hills east of 
Tonghoo, but he did not meet with it in Karennee. 
It ranges through the Indo-Burmese countries to the hill-tracts of 
Eastern Bengal, and occurs in the Himalayas as far as the river Jumna. 
This beautiful Jay frequents forests singly or in pairs, feeding principally 
on the ground on the larger insects and is very shy. I found the nest in 
April on the Pegu hills ; it was a large cup-shaped structure made of leaves 
and coarse roots and lined inside with fibres and fine roots. It was placed 
in a small tree about twenty feet from the ground, and contained three eggs, 
which were greenish white marked with yellowish brown. 
Genus GAERULUS, Briss. 
379. GARHULUS LEUCOTIS. 
THE BURMESE JAY. 
Garrulus leucotis, ITume, Proc. A. S. B. 1874, p. 106 ; id. 8. F. ii. p. 443 ; Wald. 
in Bl. B. Burm. p. 89 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 99 ; Wardlaiu Ramsay, 
Ibis, 1877, p. 460 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 384 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 105. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and front of crown white, with 
brown shaft-streaks ; lores, feathers under the eyes, the ear-coverts, chin, 
throat and front of neck white ; a broad moustachial stripe black ; back, 
rump, scapulars, lesser and median wing-coverts vinous brown, richer on the 
coverts and paler on the rump ; brea-st the same as the back ; abdomen 
and flanks paler vinous brown ; upper and under tail -coverts and vent 
white ; tail black, barred with blue towards the base ; winglet, primary- 
