Tas. XXXVITII.
GARRULUS BISPECULARIS.

° 7X . e . e . . .
Garr. pallide badius, uropygio crissoque albis; macula lata postrictali, cauda, pteromatibus,
remgibusque atris; his duabus ceruleo fasciatis.

Longitudo corporis, 12 unc.

Tuts beautiful species of Jay, which exhibits all the typical characters of the genus, is exclusively confined, so
far as our researches have hitherto extended, to the wooded line of the Himalayan chain. Its habits and
manners are those of its race, of which our well-known British Jay is a familiar example. One of the
greatest ornaments in the truly beautiful plumage of the Jays, is the barred speculum in the wing, where
alternate stripes of light blue and black produce a chaste yet rich effect. In the present bird, this speculum
is double; but the rest of the plumage is more uniform than in our native bird, consisting of a deep fawn
colour covering the crest, head and back, becoming a little lighter over the whole of the under surface; a
black band stretches downwards from the base of the beak, covering the cheeks and sides of the neck ; on
each shoulder is a speculum of alternate bars of blue and black; the greater coverts are jet black ; the quills
are black, slightly edged with grey; anda second speculum occupies a considerable portion of the secondaries,
barred with broader stripes of blue and black, the blue passing off to white abruptly edged by the line of
black ; the upper tail-coverts are white ; the tail and bill are black ; the tarsi flesh colour.

The Plate represents the bird of its natural size.