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edged with yellow ; the lores and sides of the head are greenish 

 yellow, and consequently the yellow edging is not so conspicuous 

 as in the male ; the whole lower plumage light yellowish green ; 

 wing-coverts brown, broadly tipped and edged with pale yellow ; 

 quills blackish brown, edged with greenish yellow. 



There is no seasonal change of plumage in either sex, although 

 there are two moults in the year. 



Legs and feet plumbeous blue ; claws black ; lower mandible, 

 gape, and a line on each side of the upper mandible dark plum- 

 beous blue ; rest of upper mandible black or blackish brown ; irides 

 dark to reddish brown (Davisori). 



Length about 5 ; tail 1*8 ; wing 2'4 ; tarsus *7 ; bill from gape *75. 



Distribution. A straggler to the southern portion of Tenasserim. 

 It is found in the Malay peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra. 



245. JEgithina nigrilutea. Marshall's lora. 



lora nigrolutoa, G. F. L. Marshall, S. F. iv, p. 410 (1876) ; Hume, 



S. F. v, pp. 134, 441, vii, p. 454 ; id. Cat. no. 468 bis. 

 ^Egithina nigrolutea (Marsh.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi, p. 12. 



Coloration. Male. In summer plumage the forehead, crown, 

 nape, and lores are black ; upper back bright yellow, delicately 

 fringed with black ; lower back the same, but with more black ; 

 upper tail-coverts black ; tail black, broadly tipped with white ; 

 lesser coverts and scapulars black ; median coverts white ; greater 

 coverts black, tipped with white ; quills black, narrowly margined 

 with greenish, the secondaries and tertiaries tipped white ; sides of 

 the head and neck and the whole lower plumage bright yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts white. 



In winter the male has the upper plumage entirely dull greenish 

 yellow, with, as a rule, a few black marks on the crown ; the other 

 parts of the plumage are the same as in summer. 



Female. The whole upper plumage greenish yellow ; the upper 

 tail-coverts black, fringed with green ; a bright yellow ring 

 round the eye ; sides of the head and the whole lower plumage 

 yellow ; the wings and tail as in the male, but the black is not so 

 intense ; the white parts are tinged with yellow in places, and the 

 terminal half of the middle pair of tail-feathers is nearly all white 

 tinged with ashy. 



Legs and feet light plumbeous; bill horny; iris dark (Hume). 



Length nearly 5'5; tail 1'8 ; wing 2'5 ; tarsus 4 7; bill from 

 gape -6. 



Distribution. Cutch ; the eastern half of Eajputana ; the southern 

 portion of the Punjab ; the North-West Provinces ; Malwa ; 

 Bundelkhand ; the northern portion of the Central Provinces ; 

 Eastern Bengal as far east, at least, as Mudhupur in the South al 

 Pergunnahs. 



Habits, <$fc. Nothing in particular is on record regarding the 

 habits of this species, which, however, are not likely to differ from 

 those of JE. tiphia. 



