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Galbulus, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 535 (1854) O. galbula. 



Broderipus, Bp. t. c. p. 53G (1854) O. broderipi. 



Baruffius, Bp. t. c. p. 538 (l8o4) O. brachyrhynchus. 



Xantlionotus. Bp. t. c. p. 538 (1854) 0. xantbonotus. 



Euchlorites, Heine, J.f. O. vii. p. 402 (1859). . . . O. broderipi. 



Range. Europe, excepting the extreme north; the whole of 

 Africa ; Turkestan ; India ; China ; Indo-Chinese subregion ; Malayan 

 subregiou and entire archipelago ; Australia. 



Keif ^^ '^^ Species. 



a. Head entirely golden yellow. 



a'. Wings black, without broad yellow edgings 

 to the feathers. 

 a". Witli a black loral spot, not continued 

 roiuid the eye; outer tail-feather black 



at base galbula, p. 191. 



h". The black loral streak continued past the 

 eye above the ear-coverts ; outer tail- 

 feather entirely yellow kundoo, p. 194. 



U. Wings black, all the coverts and the secon- 

 daries broadly margined with golden yellow. 



c". Outer tail-feather black at base attratus, p. 195. 



d". Outer tail-feather entirely golden yellow notatus, p. 196. 



b. Head golden yellow, with a horse^^hoe band of 



black encircling the nape, leaving a frontal 

 patch of yellow sometimes occuppng nearly 

 the entire crown, sometimes confined to a 

 small patch on the anterior part of the fore- 

 head, 

 c'. A distinct yellow alar speculum. 

 e". Outer tail-feather black at the base. 



u". Inner secondaries entuely yellow on [ j-ff , , „ -inj 



I tenuirostris, p. 198. 



6'". Inner secondaries yellow at tip, form- 

 ing a more or less distinct spot, but 

 not occupying the entire outer web. 

 «■*. Yellow of crown much wider than 

 the black horseshoe. 

 a\ Alar speculum large, as also the 

 yellow spot at the end of the inner 



secondaries maadatus, p. 199. 



6'. Alar speculum small, as also the 



tips of the inner secondaries .... andamanensis, p. 200. 

 6*. Yellow of crown confined to a frontal 

 spot much less than the black co- 

 ronal patch in width hruderipi, p. 201. 



/". Outer tail-feather entirely yellow. 



c'" . Larger; bill 1'4 inch; inner secon- 

 daries black on the outer web ; two 



middle tail-feathers black macrurm, p. 202. 



d". Smaller; bill Tlo inch; inner secon- 

 daries externally yellow along the 

 outer web; two centre tail-feathers 

 olive-yellow re/ebeiixi". p. 203. 



