228 CRATEBOPODTD^. 



green on the outer webs, tipped white, and the outer web of the 

 outermost feather whitish ; chin, throat, and breast pale ashy, 

 smeared in places with yellow ; remaining lower plumage, under 

 wing-coverts, and axillaries bright yellow. 



Female. Differs in having the crown and nape of the same 

 dark grey as the forehead ; lores, sides of the crown, and round the 

 eye without any trace of black. 



Iris dark grey-brown ; lower mandible and upper mandible along 

 the commissure pale plumbeous ; rest of upper mandible black ; 

 legs, feet, and claws fleshy, tinged plumbeous (Davison). 



Length about 5 ; tail 1-9 ; wing 2'5 ; tarsus *8 ; bill from gape *55. 



Birds from Nepal and Sikhim have the head much darker than 

 birds from the N.W. Himalayas. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from the Sutlej valley to Sikbim, 

 at elevations up to 9000 feet. 



Genus AETHORHYNCHUS, Sundevall, 1872. 



This genus is usually placed with the Brachypodince, but I cannot 

 discover that it has any close affinities with the Bulbuls. 



The birds of this genus have a moult in February in addition to 

 the autumn moult. From February to June the sexes are very 

 differently coloured, but at other times of the year they resemble 

 each other. The colours of the female are not changed by the 

 February moult. The young males resemble the female for some 

 months, and probably assume the male garb in January. 



In this genus the bill is very strong, nearly as long as the head, 

 with the culmen nearly straight and the tip strongly notched and 

 hooked ; the nostrils are long ovals, and the rictal bristles are 

 weak. The tail is almost square at the end. 



242. Aethorhynchus lafresnayii. The Great lora. 



lora lafresnayei, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool 1844, p. 401 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 



S. B. xxxix, pt. ii, p. 309 ; Bl. $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 137 ; 



Hume, S. F. v, p. 423 ; Hume $ Dav- S. F. vi, pp. 328, 516 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 468 quat. ; Binyham, S. F. ix, p. 184. 

 lora innotata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 472 (1847) ; id. Cat. p. 213. 

 Phoenicomanes iora, Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 427, pi. liv. 

 Aethorhynchus lafresnayii (HartL), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 14 : 



Oates, B. B. i, p. 204. 



Fig. 68. Head of A. 

 Coloration. Male. In breeding-plumage (February to June) the 



