344 TIMALIID A. 
(366) ABgithina nigrolutea. 
MarsHati’s Jona. 
Lora nigrolutea Marshall, 8. F., iv, p. 410 (1876) (Meerut). 
Aigithina nigrolutea. Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 232. 
Vernacular names. The same as for digithina t. tiphia. 
Description.—Male breeding. Upper back bright golden yellow, 
delicately fringed: or stippled with black; remaining upper parts 
black, the yellow showing through more or less on the lower 
back ; tail broadly tipped with white; scapulars, lesser coverts and 
greater coverts black, the latter tipped with white and the median 
coverts wholly white; quills black, narrowly margined with 
greenish, the outer secondaries tipped with white and the inner 
tipped and margined with white; sides of head and neck and 
whole lower plumage bright vellow ; under wing-coverts white. 
Male in non-breeding plumage loses all or nearly all the black 
on the upper parts which become dull greenish yellow. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris dark brown; bill horny plumbeous, 
the culmen darker ; legs and feet light plumbeous. 
Measurements. Total length about 130 to 140 mm.; wing 60 to 
66 mm.; tail about 44 to 50 mm.; tarsus about 17 to 18 mm.; 
culmen 10 to 11 mm. 
Female. Whole upper plumage greenish yellow ; the upper tail- 
coverts black, frmged with green; tail ashy-green, the central 
pair of rectrices nearly all white and the remainder broadly edged 
with white, yellowish-white or greyish-white; rest of plumage 
like that of the male but the black of the wings replaced by 
blackish brown. 
Distribution. Takes the place of . t. tiphia and @. t. humei 
to the north-west of India. It is found in Cutch, Rajputana 
where it overlaps the range of 4. ¢. humei for some distance, 
Southern and South-Western Punjab, North-West Provinces ; 
occasional in the north of the Central Provinces and north of the 
Ganges as far as Behar and the Santal Parganas, much over- 
lapping the range of . t. tiphia. Some authors consider both 
this bird and the last to be merely geographical races of Algithina 
tiphia, but their actual breeding ranges overlap so constantly 
without a corresponding intergrading of form that it seems 
imperative to give them the status of full species. 
Nidification. Exactly like that of githina tiphia. Twenty- 
four eggs taken by Barnes, Kemp and General Betham measure 
17-0 xa5 mm. 
Habits. Those of all the rest of the genus. 
Genus MYZORNIS Hodgson, 1843. 
The genus Myzornis contains one species of brilliant green 
plumage, an inhabitant of the higher portions of the Himalayas. 
