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glade, in the forest on Aya Pata, which is about 7000 feet above
the sea. Another nest, found at an elevation of about 4500 feet
on the 9th June, contained two eggs ; it was placed about 10 feet
from the ground in a small tree in a hedgerow amongst cultivated
fields."

Mr. Hodgson notes from Jaha Powah:—" Pound five nests of
this species between 18th and 30th May. Builds near the tops of
moderate-si zed trees in open districts, making a very shallow nest
of thin elastic grasses sparingly used and without lining. The
nest is placed on some horizontal branch against some upright
twig, or at some horizontal fork. It is nearly round and has a
diameter of about 6 inches. They lay three or four eggs of a
sordid vernal green clouded with obscure brown."

The eggs are somewhat lengthened ovals, very much smaller
than, though so far as coloration goes very similar to, those of
G. ylandarius. The ground-colour in some is a brown stone colour,
in others pale greenish white, and intermediate shades occur, and
they are very minutely and feebly freckled and mottled over the
whole surface with a somewhat pale sepia-brown. This mottling
differs much in intensity ; in some few eggs indeed it is absolutely
wanting, while in others, though feeble elsewhere, it forms a dis-
tinct, though undefined, brownish cap or zone at the large end.
The eggs generally have little or no gloss. It is not uncommon
to find a few hair-like dark brown lines, more or less zigzag, about
the larger end.

In length they vary from 1'03 to 1-23, and in breadth from 0'78
to 0-88; but the average of twenty-four eggs is 1-12 by 0-85.

25. Garrulus leucotis, Hume. T7ie Burmese Jay.
Gamihis leucotis, Hume, Hume, Cat. no. 669 bis.

The nest of this Jay has not yet been found, but Capt. Bingham
writes:—

" Like Mr. Davison I have found this very handsome Jay
affecting only the dry Dillenia and pine-forests so common in the
Thoimgyeen valley. I have seen it feeding on the ground in such
places with Gecinus niyrigenys, Upupa lonyirostris, and other birds.
I shot one specimen, a female, in April, near the Meplay river,
that must have had a nest somewhere, which, however, I failed to
find, for she had a full-formed but shell-less egg inside her."

26. Gamilns Mspecularis, Vigors. The Himalayan Jay.

Garrulus bispecularis, Viy.y Jerd. B. Ind. ii> p, 307; Hume, Rough
Draft N. $ E. no. 669.

The Himalayan Jay breeds pretty well throughout the lower
ranges of the Himalayas. It is nowhere, that I have seen,
numerically very abundant, but it is to be met with everywhere.
It lays in March and April, and, though I have never taken the