Distribution. The hills of Burma from the Kachin Hills in the north-east, through the Shan States, Karen Hills to Tenasserim.
Nidification. This bird breeds in great numbers all round about Maymyo, and its nests and eggs have been taken by many collectors. The nests are wide, untidy cups of twigs, grass and roots, and the eggs are like those of G. lanceolatus but very much larger, averaging about 33·0 × 23·0 mm. It appears to nest in communities. The breeding season commences in the end of March and lasts up to the end of May. Three to five eggs are laid, generally four.
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Fig. 15. — Head of G. l. leucotis.
Habits. Found principally between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and keeping much to pine and dry deciduous rather than to evergreen forest; there is little otherwise in the habits of this Jay which calls for remark. Harington found it very common in the oak forests near Maymyo, and obtained six or seven nests close to one another in quite small patches of forest.
(41) Garrulus leucotis oatesi.
Sharpe's Jay.
- Garrulus oatesi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C, v, p. 44, 1896 (Chin Hills).
Vernacular names. None recorded.
Description. Like the Burmese Jay but has the anterior crown and crest white, broadly streaked with black instead of wholly black.
Colours of soft parts and Measurements as in G. l. leucotis.
Distribution. Upper and lower Chin Hills right up to the borders of Manipur and Looshai and probably inside these countries also, though the Chindwin and Irrawaddy rivers may prove to be its west and eastern boundaries.
