108 PASSERES. 



a Malacca (Johnson) 1837. b Ceylon (Bt. at Stevens s) 

 1843. c, d Madras (" lora zeylonica" T. C. Jerdori) 1845, 

 e Java. 



a is a female with a single wing-bar, e is a male in the full 

 "zeylonica" plumage, and only differs from the Ceylonese bird in 

 having two white bars on each wing. The correctness of the locality 

 assigned to the later specimen is open to question. 



524. ^githina viridissima. 



lora, viridissima, Bp. Consp. i. p. 397. 



jfigithina viridissima, Tweeddale, Ibis, 1877 p. 304, pi. 5. 



a Malacca (N. C. Strickland) 1838. 



SUBFAMILY.- IRENIN^E. 



IRENA. 



Irena, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. oc. xiii. p. 153 (1820). 



525. Irena puella. 



Coracias puella, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 171. 



Irena puella, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 105 : Blyth, J. A. S. B. xliii. 

 extr. No. p. 138 : Sharpe. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 268. 



a India (E. Blyth) 1846. b Arakan ("Irena puella" 

 E. Blyth) 1846. c S. India (" Irena puella" T. C. Jerdon) 

 1850. 



526. Irena cyanea. 



Muscicapa cyanea, P. J. Begbie, Ann. & Mag. N. H. xvii. 

 p. 407. 



Irena puella, Strickl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. xvii. p. 407, note 

 (nee Lath.). 



Irena malayensis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. i. p. 274. 



a Malacca (N. C. Strickland) 1838. b Malacca (W. Kirt- 

 land) 1843. 



