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underparts are also paler and duller. The pale edges to the tail- 

 feathers are more conspicuous. 



Non-hreeding male. Paler and duller tlian the other races and 

 with the tail green, not blackish. 



Distribution. Soutli Central India. There are specimens in 

 the British JMuseum, chiefly from the Hume collection, from tlie 

 followiog places :— 8augor, Jliansi, Jubbulpore, Eaipur, Seoni, 

 Mhow, etc., roughly embracing S. and W. Eajpiitana, the 

 Central Provinces and the United Provinces south of tlie Granges. 



Nidification and Habits in no way different from those of the 

 other races. I have named this bird after Allan O. Hume, who 

 pointed out the differences at considerable length in ' Stray 

 Eeathei's,' ¥*j p. 437^ 

 5"- Tlie type is $ , No. 86.9.1.143, British Museum Coll., dated 

 12.5. 70, Raipur. 



(365) Mgithmsi viridissima. 



The Gkeen Iora. 



Io7-a viridissima Bonap., Consp, Av., i, p. 379 (1850) (Sumatra). 

 ^githina viridissivia. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 231. 



Vernacular names. None recorded. 



Description. — Adult male. The wliole plumage dark green, 

 becoming yellow on the abdomen and vent ; lores blackish ; 

 feathers above and below the eye bright yellow ; under tail- 

 coverts pure yellow; under wing-coverts white; tail glossy black; 

 wing-coverts black with white tips forming two wing-bars ; quills 

 black, narrowly edged with green and the inuer secondaries 

 broadly edged on both webs with white. 



Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or reddish brown ; bill slaty 

 or plumbeous blue, the culmen and tip black; legs and feet 

 plumbeous blue. 



Measurements. Total length about 130 mm.; wing 60 to 65 mm.; 

 tail about 45 to 46 mm.; tarsus about 17 to 18 mm.; culmen about 

 12 to 13 mm. 



Female and young male. Above paler than the adult male and 

 the tail edged with yellow ; the wing-coverts are brown, instead 

 of black, with yellowish wing-bars ; the quills are dark brown 

 and the whole lower plumage is pale greenish yellow. 



Distribution. Peninsular Burma and Siam, down the Malay 

 Peninsula to Borneo and Sumatra. 



Nidification. Nest and eggs sent me by Mr. AV. A. T. Ivellow 



from the foot-hills beyond Perak are indistinguishable from those 



of ^Eijithlna tlphia. The nests were taken in thin scrub-jungle 



* and were placed in vertical forks of bushes. The eggs measure 



17'8x 13-9 mm. They were taken in May. 



Habits. Similar to those of the Common Iora, though this is 

 apparently more of a jungle, and less of a village, bird than that is. 



