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nest myself, I have now repeatedly had ifc sent ine. It builds at
moderate heights, rarely above 25 feet from the ground, in trees
or thick shrubs, at elevations of from 3000 to 7000 feet. The
nest is a moderate -sized one, 6 to 8 inches in external diameter,
composed of fine twigs and grass, and lined with finer grass and
roots.

The nest is usually placed in a fork.

The eggs are four to six in number.

Mr. Hodgson notes that he " found a nest " of this species " on
the 20th April, in the forest of Shewpoori, at an elevation of 7000
feet. The nest was placed in the midst of a large tree in a fork.
The nest was very shallow, bat regularly formed and compact. It
was composed of long seeding grasses wound round and round,
and lined with finer and more elastic grass-stems. The nest
measured about 6| inches in diameter, but the cavity was only
about half an inch deep.'7

Colonel C. H. T. Marshall remarks :—" I only took one authen-
ticated set of eggs of this species (I found several with young), as
it is an early breeder—I say authenticated eggs, because I think
we may have attributed some to Garrulas lanceolatus, as the nests
and eggs are very similar, and having a large number of the eggs
of the latter, I took some from my shikaree without verifying
them.

" The nest I took on the 6th May, 1873, at Murree, was at an
elevation, I should say, of between 6500 and 7000 feet (as it was
near the top of the hill), in the forest. The tree selected was a
horse-chestnut, about 25 feet high. The nest was near the top,
which is the case with nearly all the Crows' and Magpies' nests
that I have taken. It was of loose construction, made of twigs
and fibres, and contained five partially incubated eggs.

" The eggs are similar to those of G. lanceolatus. I have care-
fully compared the five of the species which I am now describing
with twenty of the other, and find that the following differences
exist. The egg of G. bispecularis is more obtuse and broader,
there is a brighter gloss on it, and the speckling is more marked;
but with a large series of each I think the only perceptible dif-
ference would be its greater breadth, which makes the egg look
larger than that of the Black-throated Jay. My four eggs measure
1-15 by 0-85 each.

" This species only breeds once in a year, and from my observa-
tions lays in April, all the young being hatched by the loth May.
Captain Cock and myself carefully hunted up all the forests round
Murree, where the birds were constantly to be seen, commencing
our work after the 10th May, and we found nothing but young
ones."

Colonel Gr. F. L. Marshall writes :—" I have found nests of this
species for the first time this year; the first on the 22nd of May,,
by which time, as all recorded evidence shows it to be an early
breeder, I had given up all hopes of getting eggs. The first nest
contained two fresh eggs; it was on a horizontal limb of a large