23. Platysmurus leucopterus.
The White-winged Jay.
Glaucopis leucopterus, Temm. Pl. Col. no. 265 (1824). Temnurus leucopterus (Temm.), Myth, Cat. p. 92; Wald. in Blyth, Birds Burm. p. 88. Platysmurus leucopterus (Temm.), Horsf. & M. Cat. ii, p. 564; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iii, p. 90; Tweedd. Ibis,1877, p. 318 ; Hume Dav. S. F. vi, p. 387; Hume, Cat. no. 678 quint.; Oates, B. B. i, p. 409; id. in Hume's N. & E. 2nd ed. i, p. 26.
Coloration. The whole plumage black; the terminal halves of the larger upper wing-coverts and a large patch on the exterior webs of some of the secondaries white; the forehead crested and the feathers stiff.
In some specimens the smaller wing-coverts are narrowly margined with white, and this probably indicates immaturity.
Bill, legs, feet and claws black; irides lake-red to crimson {Davison).
Length 16 ; tail 8; wing 7.5 ; tarsus 1.55 ; bill from gape 1.7.
Distribution. Throughout Southern Tenasserim from a little above Tavoy down to Malawun, also down the Malay peninsula to Singapore and Sumatra.
Habits, &c. Davison found the nest on the 8th April with two young birds. It was constructed most coarsely of twigs &c, and was placed on the frond of a large reed which rested against a bush.
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