THE WHITE- WINGED JAY. 
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Genus PLATYSMUEUS, Eeich. 
380. PLATYSMUEUS LEUCOPTEEUS. 
THE WHITE-WINGED JAY. 
Glaucopis leucopterus, Temm. PI. Col. 265. Temnurus leucopterus, Less. 
TraiU, p. 341 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 88. Platysmurus leucopterus, 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. iii. p. 90 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 318 ; Hume 8f Dav. 
S. F. yi. p. 387 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 106. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole plumage black; the terminal 
halves of the larger upper wing-coverts and a large patch on the exterior 
webs of some of the secondaries white ; the forehead crested and the 
feathers stiff. 
In some specimens the smaller wing-coverts are narrowly margined with 
white^ and this probably indicates immaturity. 
Bill^ legS; feet and claws black ; irides lake-red to crimson. [Davison.) 
Length 16 inches^ tail 8^ wing 7*5_, tarsus 1*55^ bill from gape 1'7. The 
female is of the same size. 
The White-winged J ay was observed by Mr. Davison in Tenasserim from 
Meetamyo^ a village about 20 miles N.E. of Tavoy^ down to Malewoon 
at the extreme southern point of Tenasserim^ and my own men procured a 
large number of birds at Malewoon and Bankasoon. 
It occurs throughout the Malay peninsula and also in the south-east 
portion of Sumatra. 
Mr. Davison says : — This species keeps entirely to the forests_, going 
about usually in parties of from four to six. They have a deep^ rolling 
metallic note^ which they continually utter as they move from tree to tree. 
I have never seen them on the ground ; they probably get their foodj which 
consists of insects, and occasionally at any rate, of fruit, amongst the trees. 
They are excessively restless and always on the move, flying from tree to 
tree, generally at a considerable height, and continually uttering their harsh 
metallic call. They restrict themselves to the evergreen forests, never, that 
I am aware, coming into gardens or open ground. 
