lora scapularis (nee Ilorsf.), Fi-ankl. P. Z. 8. ISaO, p. 118 ; Hodgs. 



Icon. incd. in Brit. Xlus., Passeres, pis. 102, 103; id. m Gray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 83, no. 711. 

 lora t^phia, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89 ; Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 248 ; 



Hartl. Moff. de Zool. 1845, texte to pi. GO ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. 



part 1, 1844, p. 380; Gray, Cat. Mnmm. |r. Nepal pres. Hodys. 



p. 86 ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 199 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 214; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 397 ; Cah. Mus. Ilein. Th. i. p. 76 ; Layard, Ann. 



Nat. Hist. xii. 1853, p. 207 ; Horsf. 8f 31oore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. 



Co. i. p. 260; Jerd. B. Ind. ii.p. 103; Blyth Sf Walden, B. Burin. 



p. 137 ; Armstrotu/, Str. I. 1^76, p. 326 ; Simie, Str. F. 1877, 



p. 428 ; id. Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 327 ; id. Str. F. 1879, pp. 63, 



99 ; Leyge, Birds of Ceylon, p. 490 ; Anderson, Zool. E.vp. Yuu-nan, 



p. 660. 

 Motacilla subyiridis, Tichell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 577. 

 lora melaceps. Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 227 (ex LevailL). 

 lora meliceps, Horsf. J. A. S. Beng. x. part 1, 1841, p. 50 ; Blyth, 



J. A. S. B. xiii. p." 1, 1844, p. 380. 

 lora zevlonica, Hartl. Mae/. Zool. 1845, texte topi. GO ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 199 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 213 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 397 ; 



Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 76; Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. 



p. 267 ; Horsf. %■ 3Ioore, Ceit. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 267 ; Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. lOi ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. ls72, p. 452 ; Butler, Str. F. 1875, 



p. 473 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 99. 

 iEgitLiua tiphia, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4725 ; Hume, Nests 



Sr Eqgs Ind. B. p.' 295 ; Bcdl, Str. F. 1874, p. 411 ; Hume, t. c. 



p. 459 ; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 129. 

 yEgithina zeylonica, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4726 ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1873, p. 438. 



Wing of JEgiihiiia tiphia, to show proportions of primaries and 

 secondaries. 

 Adult male (Khandala, May 12, 1876 ; S. B. Fcdrhank). General 

 colour above glossy black, the feathers of the mantle white at base, 

 slightly washed with yellow ; scapulars white, the outermost black 

 at the tips ; wing-coverts black like the back, with a double band 

 of white across the wing, formed by the median coverts and the 

 white tips to the majority of the greater coverts ; quilJs black, with 

 a very narrow edging of yellow to the primaries, the secondaries 

 narrowly fringed with white at the tip, the innermost entirely glossy 

 black ; lower back and rump yellowish green ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail-feathers black ; lores, eyelid, sides of crown, and sides of neck 

 glossy black, the latter mottled with white bases to the feathers ; 

 lower edge of eyelid, checks, ear-coverts, and under surface of body 

 bright yellow, fading off into paler yellow on the lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, the sides washed with yellowish green ; on 

 either flank a large tuft of silky white plumes ; thighs yellowish 



