4 TIMELUDJE. 



e". Bill somewhat stout, the cul- 

 men not as long as the 

 middle toe ; gonys nearly 

 straight ; head fully crested, 



the feathers roimded 23. Kelaartia, 



<r. Wing long, exceeding the length [p. 162. 



of the tail by as much as the 



length of the tarsus 24. Tylas, p. 163. 



i". Bill broader thau it is high 25. Rubigula, 



h. Nostrils hidden by dense plumes. [p- 166. 



c'. Heio-ht of bill" at nostrils about equal to the 



length of gonys 26. Spizixus, 



(T. Height of bill' at nostrils less than length of [p. 172. 



gonys 27. Ibena, p. 174. 



1. .ffiGITHINA*. 



Type. 



iEgithina, ViciU. Analyse, p. 144 (1816) I. typhia. 



lora, Horsf. Tram. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 151 (1820) I. scapularis. 



BiU of Mgithina tiphia, from above, to show rictal bristles. 



Cf. Hartl. Maq. de Zool. 184.5, Ois., texte to pi. 60 ; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, IS/'?, pp. 420-452 ; Legge, Birds of Ceylon, pp. 490^92. 



Range. India and Ceylon, Burniese countries, Malayan penin- 

 sula, and Indo-Malayan Islands, 



Key to the Species. 



a. Green below as well as above, with a spot of yellow 



above and below the eye viridissima, p. 6. 



b. Yellow below tipliia, p. 7. 



«'. Tail black, the feathers margined with yellow, or 



tail greenish with yellow edges. 



«". Head and back black always in full plimiage ; 

 second wing-band formed by white tips to 

 greater coverts often absent ; edges to prima- 

 ries often obsolete a. zeylonica, 



h". .Similar to the foregoing,but not so deep a green 



on the lower back /3. Pale race of ^. zeylonica. 



* Ml". Hume would set aside Mgithina of Vieillot (founded on his Sylvia 

 leucoptera, and not, as Prof. SimdevaU states, on " Le Quadricolor " of Levaillant), 

 on account of the insufficient description of the Fauvdtc Icucojitcrc. No one, 

 however, examining tlic plate can doubt that it is lora tiphia (Linn.), wrongly 

 described as from America ; and therefore lora of liorsfield is superseded by 

 Mgithina of Yieillot. 



