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the black head and back, but when they are brilliant yellow below 

 ■with black wings and tail. Many Malaccan specimens are also iden- 

 tical with Borneau, and would have been referred by me to uSfJ. viridis 

 but for the likelihood of their being black-backed ^. tiphia in its 

 second or black-tailed stage. The yellow forehead observable in 

 fully adult Bornean birds would seem to be peculiar to them. 



7. For convenience I have kept the synonymy of the Javan and 

 Bornean birds distinct ; but they can scarcely be called really distinct 

 species. 



1. .ffigitliina viridissima, 



lora scapularis (pt., nee Sorsf.), Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 602 ; 



Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B.' E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 265; Bbjth, Ibis, 



1867", p. 10. 

 lora viridissima, Bp. Consp. i. p. 307 (ex Temm. MS. in Mus. 



Luqd.*); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1«63, p. 219; Salvad. Ucc. Bom. 



p. 192 ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 427, 1878, p. 327, 1879, pp. 63, 



99; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 256; id. P. Z. S.^ 1879, p. 339. ^ 

 iEgithina scapularis (pt.), Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4727. 

 jEgithina viridis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4728 (nee Bp.). 

 lora chloroptera, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 192 ($); Hume, Str. F. 



1877, p. 428. 

 ^githina viridissima, Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 304, pi. v. ; Salvad. 



Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 216. 



Adult male. General colour very dark grass-green, a little lighter 

 on the lower back and rump, where the plumage is somewhat 

 varied with greyish bases to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail black ; scapulars black ; wings black, with a double wing-bar 

 of white, formed by the broad white ends to the greater and median 

 series of coverts ; quills narrowly edged with green, the inner 

 secondaries margined with yellowish green on both webs, inchning 

 to white near the end of the feathers ; sides of face dark grass- 

 green, the lores black ; above the eye a narrow yellow line, and 

 below the eye a larger yellow spot ; under surface of body deep 

 grass-green, paler on the lower breast ; the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow ; thighs yeUow, with black bases ; 

 flanks with a long silky white tuft ; under wing-coverts white, 

 washed with yellow, the edge of the wing yellow ; axillaries white ; 

 quills ashy black below, white along the edge of the inner web. 

 Total length 5-'2 inches, culmen 0-0.5, wing 2-35, tail 1"'J, tarsus 0-7. 



Ohs. The soft parts given by Mr. Hume are as follows : — " Legs 

 and feet plumbeous blue ; claws black ; lower mandible, gape, and 

 a line on each side of upper mandible dark plumbeous blue ; rest of 

 upper mandible black or blackish brown ; irides dark to reddish 

 brown." 



Adult female. General colour above grass-green, the lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish, 

 tipped with yellow or yellowish white, forming a double bar across 

 the wings ; quills blackish, externally edged with greenish yellow, 

 broader on the secondaries, the innermost being margined with 

 yellow on both webs, inclining to white at the end of the feathers ; 



* Type examined in the Leydeii Museum. 



