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with black on back and head, but showing no traces of yellow. 
In the female the tail is green. 
Paunben. Two ¢ one ?. Both males have the head and 
upper back, jet black with a few traces of yellow on the latter ; 
tail, entirely jet black; wings, entirely jet black, excepting a 
white spot on the coverts, in the female the tail is green. 
Nilgherris. Three ¢ two ¢. Inthe males the head and 
back is black, largely mixed with green; the tail is entirely 
black. In the young males and females the tail is green. 
Travancore. Three ¢ one ¢ precisely similar to the Nil- 
gherri specimens. 
Wynaad. One ¢ shot from nest entirely green. Two ¢ one 
2 as in Nilgherri birds. 
Mysore. Two Q, one similar to the Nilgherri specimens, the 
other exhibits traces of yellow on the back. 
Madras. One ¢ two ¢, precisely similar to the Nilgherri 
specimens. 
Kandeish. Two 3 do. do., but with the black more completely 
developed. 
Matteran. One ¢ one @ precisely similar to the Nilgherri 
specimens. 
Mahableshwar. One g two ¢. The male exhibits a slight trace 
of yellow on the back, otherwise both agree with Nilgherri 
specimens. 
Ahmednuggur. One 6 exhibits decided traces of yellow on 
the back, otherwise as in Nilgherri specimens. 
Central Provinces. Nine ¢ four ?. The males as in the 
Ahmednuggur specimen with decided traces of yellow in the 
black on the back, showing an approximation to the North- 
West form J. nigrolutea, but the young males and females 
have all the green tail. 
Mount Aboo. Two ¢ one ? do. do. 
Jhansi. Two ¢ three ?. The only adult male shows strong 
yellow markings on the back, but the young male and females 
have green tails. In this district the true I. nzgrolutea begins 
to occur. 
So far the type of J. zeylonica extends, north of this the 
I. typhia type is the prevailing form ; out of 3 J from the Ku- 
maon; Bhabar, one ¢ from Dehra Doon, four males from Etawah, 
one ¢ from Oude, eight ¢ from Meerut, one ¢ from Etawah, 
three ¢ from Tirhoot, seven g from Calcutta, one g from 
Dacca, one ¢ from Tipperah, one ¢ from Akyab, in all thirty- 
one males from Northern and EKast€rn India, not one has any 
decided black mixed with the green on the head and upper back. 
In the specimens from Burmah, of which there is a large 
series, an admixture of black with the green is not uncommon, 
