338 TIMALIID®, 
The position of this genus, of githina which is very closely 
allied to it, and of Chloropsisis very doubtful. In all three the sexes 
are dissimilar and in the first two the summerand winter plumages 
of the males are different. They have frequently been placed in 
a family with the Bulbuls and one or two others but they appear 
to me to be even less closely connected with them than with the 
truly Timaliine birds. Probably they should: be placed in a family 
by themselves leading from the Timalude to the Pycnonotide but 
for the present I leave them as they are. Specimens in spirit are 
wanted for examination. 
(361) Aethorhynchus lafresnayi. 
THE Great Jora. 
Tora lafresnayi Hartl., Rev. Zool., 1844, p, 401 (Malacca). 
Aethorhynchus lafresnayt. Blant. & Oates, 1, p. 228. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description Breeding male. Upper plumage dull green, the 
feathers fringed with black: wings, tail and upper tail-coverts 
deep black, the primaries and outer secondaries very narrowly 
Fig. 63.—Head of Ae. lafresnayi. 
edged with greenish on the outer and more broadly with white on 
the inner webs; lores, cheeks, a ring round the eye and the whole 
lower plumage bright yellow. 
Non-breeding male and female. Upper plumage without the 
black fringes; the tail dull greenish yellow; primaries and second- 
aries brown instead of black. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris brown or hazel-brown; bill plum- 
beous, leaden blue or bluish slate, the culmen darker; legs and 
feet clear slate or plumbeous blue, the claws horny-brown. 
Measurements. Length about 165 mm.; wing 67 to 72 mm.; 
tail about 55 to 57 mm.; tarsus about 20 mm.; culmen about 
17 mm. 
Distribution. From South Arrakan down West Burma to 
Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula, Siam and ? Annam. 
Nidification. ‘T'wo nests taken by Mr. W. A. T. Kellow near 
Perak are. small, rather deep cups of the softest grasses, lined 
with the same and well bound round and about with spiders’ webs, 
often mixed with their egg-bags. Both were placed in high 
bushes in evergreen-jungle. They were taken on 4th January and 
