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JAYS. 
black, tipped with white, the white tips increas- 
ing in size and extent towards the outside, the 
under tail coverts pure white ; the remaining parts 
of the plumage rich umber-brown, with a purplish 
tinge, having the tip of each feather marked with 
a large oval spot of white ; on the throat the spots 
are narrow, but under the eyes, and on the sides 
of the neck, they are nearly confluent. In this 
species the bill is straighter and more subulate than 
in that from alpine India, and the claws on the 
centre and binder toes are much more slender 
and lengthened. Length rather more than eleven 
inches. 
The Jays composing the next sub-family of the 
Corvida, are generally of much more gaudy 
plumage than any of the preceding, and at the 
same time are more arboreal in their habits. 
The old genus has been divided into sub-genera, 
some of which from warm latitudes are of very 
beautiful plumage. Our British example belongs 
to the old form, or true Jays, a group which 
rather affects a temperate and sub-alpine region, 
and of which the principal extra European species 
have been chiefly found in the mountainous re- 
gions of India. 
Garrulus, Willughby. — Generic characters. 
— Bill rather short, straight at the base, tip 
bent and distinctly notched, commissure 
straight, nostrils covered and protected by 
short bristly feathers ; wings rounded, first 
