424 EEMARKS ON THE GENUS IORA. 



2f inch, and tail 2| inch ; bill to gape, 1 inch, and tarsi f inch. 

 Colour, plain green above, yellow below, brightest on throat 

 and breast ; no white markings on wings, except a slight white 

 edge to the primaries. If new /. innotata, nobis.'"' 



Stoliczka thus described what he considered an adult male : — 



u General plumage above, black, with a greenish glossy tinge ; 

 forehead, yellow, passing to black on top of head between the 

 eyes ; neck and back tinged with yellowish green ; feathers of 

 the rump very soft, much lengthened, whitish at their bases, 

 olivaceous towards the middle and with yellow tips ; upper 

 tail-coverts, short, metallic black ; tail and wings, shining black, 

 the latter internally near the shoulder edge yellow, then white ; 

 all the wing feathers having the bases with their coverts and 

 the edges of the inner webs, white ; the 5-9th quills are on the 

 basal half of the outer webs also slightly edged with yellow; 

 lores and eyelids, yellow ; ear-coverts, black, below uniform, 

 bright yellow throughout, slightly olivaceous at the side of 

 the breast below the wings; wing, 2-75 ; tail, 232 ; bill at 

 front, 0-81, from gape, 0*94 ; tarsus, 0'81." 



Stoliczka suggested that Hartlaub had described a female, 

 but in reality he merely described a male in non-breeding plu- 

 mage ; the females never, I believe, have either wings or tails steely 

 black. I have males in precisely the plumage Hartlaub describ- 

 ed, except that they are younger, and that their tails are conse- 

 quently yellowish olive ; each of the feathers, except the central 

 and outer pairs, with a stripe of blackish brown on the inner 

 webs next the shafts. 



Blyth's specimen probably was a female. 



Lastly, Mr. Sharpe re-described the species (believing his 

 specimen to have been obtained in Jamaica) under the name of 

 Phoenicomanes iora, in the following words : — 



" Above blackish, with a deep indigo lustre ; many of the 

 feathers of the crown and back tinged with yellow, apparently 

 the remains of a previous plumage ; forehead, brighter yellow ; 

 lores and a distinct eyebrow, bright yellow, as also are the rest 

 of the sides of the face, excepting the upper margin of the 

 ear-coverts, which are blackish ; quills, blackish, the primaries 

 narrowly margined with yellow, the secondaries very broadly 

 with indigo ; rump and upper tail-coverts, greyish, the feathers 

 very fluffy and washed slightly with yellowish ; tail, black, 

 glossed with dull indigo, and crossed with indistinct wavy lines 

 when held to the light; entire under-surface, brilliant yellow; 

 the flanks, very long and fluffy, inclining to greyish white, 

 slightly tinged with greeenish ; under wing-coverts and inner 

 lining of quills, white, with a slight tinge of bright yellow on 

 the bend 'of the wing." 



