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521. Phyllornis viridis. 



T urdus viridis, Horsf. Trans. L. S. xiii. p. 148. 

 Phyllornis viridis, Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 305. 

 Phyllornis sonnerati, Jard. & Selb. 111. Orn. pi. 100. 

 a Malacca (Capt. Nash) 1837. 



JEgithina, Vieillot, Anal. p. 44 (1816) 1 . 



522. ^githina tiphia. 



Motacilla tiphia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 331 



lora typhia, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 103. 



Sylvia leucoptera, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. ii. pi. 84. 



a Malacca (Johnson) 1837. b India ("lora typhia " JE.JBlyth) 

 1846. c India (" lora zeylonica" E. Blytli) 1846. d India 

 (F. J. E. Boys] 1847. e India (W. J. E. Boys] 1818. f, 

 g India (E. Blyth] 1851. h f Java. 



Of specimens /and g Blytli writes " lora. Although I never saw 

 the zeylonica plumage here at any season, yet indications in this 

 state are sometimes seen of it." Strickland (Ann & Mag. N". H. vi. 

 p. 422) considered JE. scapularis (Horsf. Trans. L. S. xiii. p. 152) to 

 be the same as sE. tiphia (L.), but subsequently (Ann. & Mag. N. H. 

 xiii. p. 205) he states that Dr Horsfield informed him that black- 

 headed specimens of this bird never occurred in Java. In 1842 

 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. viii. p. 372) he united ^E. scapularis and jE. 

 zeylonica to JE. typhia, a view which may still prove correct. 



523. JEgithina zeylonica. 



Ceylon Black-cap, Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 15 f. 2, unde 

 Motacilla zeylonica, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 964. 

 lora zeylonica, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 101. 



1 This generic name was based by Vieillot on his Sylvia leucoptera, which, 

 judging from the figure, is identical with Motacilla tiphia, Linn., the locality 

 N. America being erroneous. Accordingly sBgithina, Yieill. must supplant lora, 

 Horsf., a view taken by Gray and Lord Tweeddale. In a note to Blytk's 

 ' Further Observations on tbe Ornithology of Calciitta ' (Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiv. 

 p. 42) Strickland says that he is disposed to place lora ( = ^githina) with the 

 Oriolince, and gives his reasons for this arrangement. 



