14 TIMELnDJE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail yello-wish gi-eeu. 



a'. Larger : gi'eeB ; no bright yellow edges 

 to the wing-coverts ; ear-coverts green, 



with yellow shaft-streaks ■ . . . . lafresnuyii $ , p. 14. 



h'. Smaller: yellowish green; wing-coverts 

 conspicuously margined and tipped with 

 yellow ; ear-coverts bright yellow .... xanthotis $ , p. 15. 

 h. Tail "black ; ear-coverts black lafresnayii cS , p. 14. 



1. Aethorhynchus lafresnayii. 



lora lafresnayei, Hartl. Eev. Zool. 1844, p. 401 ; id. 3Iag. tie Zool. 



1845, Ois. pi. 60 : Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 199 ; StoUczka, J. A. S. Banff. 



xxxix. 1870, p. 309 ; Bli/fh S,- TJ'ald. B. Burm. p. 137; Hume, Str. 



F. 1877, p. 423, 1878, p. 516, 1879, pp. 63, 99. 

 lora innotata, Blj/t/i, J. A. S. Benff. xvi. p. 472; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



A&. >Soc. B. p. 213 ; Bp. Cunap. \. p. 397. 

 ^githina lafresnayei, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 316, no. 4729. 

 Aethorhynchus lafresnayei, Sund. Av. Meth. Tenl. p. 8. 

 Phcenicomanes iora, Shurpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 427, pi. 54 ; id. Ann. 



<§■ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, xvi. p. 236 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 640. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy greenish black, with 

 slight remains of greyish green, especially on the lower back and 

 rump ; wing-coverts and qiiills black, externally edged with greenish 

 Hack, the primaries with an outer margin of yellowish white, 

 nearly obsolete ; upper taU-coverts and tail greenish black ; some of 

 the tail-feathers with a very narrow margin of yellow on the inner 

 • web ; forehead washed with greenish yellow ; lores, feathers round 

 the eye, and cheeks bright yellow ; car-coverts glossy greenish black, 

 including the hinder margin of the eyelid ; sides of neck and under 

 surface of body bright yellow ; flanks with a large tuft of silky 

 white feathers ; under wing-coverts and axiUarics white, the former 

 slightly washed with yellow. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0*9, 

 wing 2-75, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*7. {Mus. li. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



Adult female (Ahsown, Tenasserim, 2000 feet, Feb. 5, 1877). 

 General colour above duU grass-green, with a gloss of oily green, 

 the feathers grey at the base ; least wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts and quills dusky black, washed with 

 green and inclining to pale yellow on the edges, shading into 

 gre)ish white towards the tips of the outer webs of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers yellowish green, edged with brighter yello-^- along the 

 inner webs ; lores, feathers round the eye, and cheeks bright yellow ; 

 ear-coverts green, streaked with j'ellow ; under surface of body 

 bright yellow, the sides of the body greener ; flanks with a con- 

 cealed tuft of white plumes ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, the former washed with yellow; edge of wing yeUow ; quills 

 dusky blackish below, white along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 dark above, bluish grey underneath ; legs bluish grey ; iris brown " 

 {MS. label). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0-8. {Mus. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay.) 



