410 A NEW INDIAN IORA. 
longicaudatus is the newly moulted November plumage, that 
from January this begins to fade into the terricolor plumage, 
the tail alone being moulted in May, giving us in June the 
typical terricolor plumage. Before concluding it may be as 
well to contrast briefly the typical winter and summer plumage. 
Drymorpus Lyornatus, Sykes. 
Winter (longicaudatus ). 
Bill, brown, greater part of 
lower mandible, yellowish 
horny. 
Lower surface, warm buff. 
Upper surface, _ strongly 
rufescent. 
Wings, hair brown, strongly 
margined with dull 
ferruginous. 
Tail, 3°23; rufescent brown, 
obsoletely barred with darker 
brown; the lateral feathers 
paler ; all lateral feathers tipped 
with rufescent white preceded 
by an imperfect dark bar; 
central tail feathers, with traces 
of the same. 
Summer (terricolor). 
Bill, black, yellowish at ex- 
treme base of lower mandible. 
Lower surface, white with a 
faint yellowish tinge. 
Upper surface, dull earthy grey 
brown. . 
Wings, earthy brown, margin- 
ed albescent. 
Tail, 2°55; central tail feathers 
pale earthy brown obsoletely 
barred with a darker shade ; 
lateral tail feathers paling 
towards the exterior ones 
which are almost white ; all the 
lateral ones tipped with white 
preceded by a dark imperfect 
bar or spot. 
As (Qyie 
A Ale Indian gora. 
By Capt. G. F. L. MarsHatt, R. E. 
Tora nigrolutea Sp Nov. 
Characters— 9 and g juv—Tail with the central feathers 
grey, the outer feathers black, all broadly edged with white. 
The edgings of the wing feathers purer white, less strongly 
tinged with greenish yellow than in J. typhia; otherwise in 
coloring and dimensions similar to J. typhia. 
In advancing to full plumage the grey of the central tail fea- 
thers changes to black in strong contrast with the broad white tips. 
& adult—Head and nape, jet black, divided from the yellow 
of the back by a sharp line ; upper back, lemon yellow with 
black tips to the feathers (it is possible that the upper back may 
in fully adult males become entirely black, but no such speci- 
men has been found as yet) ; lower back, greenish ; wings with 
the primaries, dusky, edged with yellowish white ; the rest of 
