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The tail alone, strongly rounded, would be sufficient to distinguish 
from our new species, and indeed from all others, 
Garrultjs lanceolatus, Yig. Cano-vinaceus: pileo geniscjue 
nigris : gida juguloque nigricantibus plumis lanceolatis, rachi- 
dibus albis : tectricum alarum minorum exterioribus candidis, 
corpori proximioribus nigerrimis absque fasciis : remigibus rec- 
tricibusque cceruleis nigro fasciolatis : cauda valde rotund at a , 
apice alba. 
Synonyms. 
Garrulus gularis, J. Gr. adult. 
Garrulus Vigorsi, J. Gr. juv. 
III. Ind. Zool. i. t. 10 & t. 9. 
Hab. in Asia centrali, Himalaja. 
N.B. The small coverts which in all other Jays are blue banded, in 
this are plain black and white (bipartite); which latter colour on the 
contrary is wanting on the quills, beautifully striated blue and black 
as are the small coverts of the others. 
The comparison with this last species was the only one necessary 
to establish; but, considering that no little difficulty is met with in 
discriminating the different European and Asiatic Jays, and what a 
confusion prevails among the synonyms of the remaining, which may 
be considered as six races of the same great species, I shall try to take 
advantage of my long experience, peculiar fancy for the group, and 
especially of the rich collection I now have at my command, in order 
to point out their discrepancies. 
1. Garrulus glandarius, Yieill. Cinereo-vinaceus, dorso or- 
bitisque concoloribus: pileo albo-cinereo , plumis elongatis medio 
nigris : genis rufescentibus : gula juguloque albis : remigibus 
primariis extus basi albis; secundariis obsolete cceruleo-fascio- 
latis : rectricibus nigris subfasciolatis. Major : rostrum vali- 
dum. 
Synonym. 
Corvus glandarius, L. fyc. 
PL Enl. 481; Levaill. Par ad. t. 40, 41; Gould, Eur. t. 214. 
Hab. Europ. s. occ. et m. ab Hispania ad Graeciam. 
fits pelagieus, leucopterus aut imp er at or), whose monstrously powerful bill must 
really be thunderstri/cing ! 2. Of ascertaining tlie supposed new species of Micro- 
glossus, of which you may have read in the * Comptes Rendus ’ of the French Aca¬ 
demy, and which I am delighted to say proves to he a specimen of the oldest 
known, more likely to get the second abolished than a third established. Sehle- 
gel (whose observations I shall always be happy to collect and profit by) de¬ 
clared that the two species of Microglossi will henceforth stand in precisely the 
same relation as the two Coracopsis (which he of course called Vasa) to each other. 
But even not considering that result of our investigation, our chief object would 
have become the least important, from the great variety of valuable and new ani¬ 
mals we saw on all sides in the newly-built galleries and well-kept museum, espe¬ 
cially among reptiles ! And what can I say of the unique collection of foetuses ? 
Even Englishmen could not help being amazed at seeing’ in the midst of other 
wonders, the Elephant and Hippopotamus bottled up in spirits ! 
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