EGITHINA, 343 
underparts are also paler and duller. The pale edges to the tail- 
feathers are more conspicuous. 
Non-breeding male. Paler and duller than the other races and 
with the tail green, not blackish. 
Distribution. South Central India. There are specimens in 
the British Museum, chiefly from the Hume collection, from the 
following places :—Saugor, Jhansi, Jubbulpore, Raipur, Seoni, 
Mhow, etce., roughly embracing S. and W. Rajputana, the 
Central Provinces and the United Provinces south of the Ganges. 
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 
Feathers,’ vi, p. 437. 
The type is 2, No. 86.9.1.145, British Museum Coll., dated 
12.5.70, Raipur. 
(365) AMgithina viridissima. 
Ture GREEN JORA, 
Lora viridissima Bonap., Consp. Av., i, p. 379 (1850) (Sumatra). 
Aigithina viridissima. Blanf. & Oates, i, p. 281. 
Vernacular names. None recorded. 
Description.—Adult male. The whole 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 inner 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 to18 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. W. A. T. Keliow 
from the foot-hills beyond Perak are indistinguishable from those 
of £yithina tiphia. The nests were taken in thin scrub-jungle 
and were placed in vertical forks of bushes. The eggs measure 
17°8x13°9 mm. They were taken in May. 
Habits. Similar to those of the Common Tora, though this is 
apparently more of a jungle, and less of a village, bird than that is. 
