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axillaries, white, sometimes faintly tipped yellowish or with olive 

 green ; shoulder of wing, inside j-ellowish ; rest of wing-lining, 

 satiny white ; the quills, with satiny white margins to the 

 inner webs, at the extreme base only in the case of the 

 first, but for a greater and greater length in each succeeding 

 quill, so that in the latest secondaries the white margin extends 

 quite to the tips. 



The females, absolutely similar, except that the whole of the 

 golden or gamboge yellow is replaced by a paler, greener and 

 more lemon yellow. 



The only localities from which we have specimens are the 

 extreme southern portions of the Tenasserim provinces, and the 

 Malay Peninsular, from the neighbourhood of Malacca, speci- 

 mens from the latter locality differing as above pointed out ; 

 Blyth, however, recorded it as above from Arakan. We have 

 never yet received it thence. 



2. — Iora viridissima, Tern. Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. I., 

 397, 1850. 



scapularis <J, Horsf. apud Blyth, J. A. S. B., XIV, 602, 

 1845, et apud Horsf, Cat. B. H. E. I. C. Mus. L, 265, et auct. 

 nee Horsf. Tr. Lin. S. XIII., 152, nee Zool. Res. Jav. 



t chloroptera, Salvad. U. de B. 192, 1875, ? . 



Bonaparte first described this species (of which he found 

 specimens in the Leyden Museum from Borneo and Sumatra. 

 bearing Temminck's manuscript name) in the following terms : — 



" Intensely green ; scarcely paler beneath ; eye spot and 

 vent, yellow; wings, white banded ; tail, black." 



Blyth, getting specimens from Malacca, took it into his head 

 that this was only the male of /. scapularis of Horsfield, which 

 he concluded to be the female. Horsfield himself, Moore, and 

 others adopted this view. Salvadori (Uccelli di Borneo, 191, 

 193) was, as far as I know, the first to publish a contradiction of 

 this hypothesis, but even he does not appear to have seen re- 

 liably sexed specimens of this species. 



We found this species, The Green Iora, common at Johore, 

 at the extreme south of the Malay Peninsular ; at Nealys, 

 about 31 miles from Malacca, near Malacca itself, and Davison 

 shot a single specimen at Mergui on the 20th June. It is also 

 recorded from Borneo and Sumatra. 



The sexes do not differ appreciably in size, nor in the colors 

 of the soft parts. The following particulars were recorded from 

 numerous fresh specimens : — 



Length, 5-0 to 5-25; expanse, 75 to 7*82 ; tail, 1-75 to 1-82 ; 

 wing, 2*35 to 2'5 ; tarsus, 0'65 to 0"7 ; bill from gape, 0*7 to 

 0-75; weight, 0'5 to 0'62 oz. 



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