42 8 REMARKS ON THE GENUS IORA. 



Legs and feet, plumbeous blue; claws, black ; lower mandibles, 

 gape and a line on each side of upper mandible, dark plumbeous 

 blue ; rest of upper mandible, black or blackish brown ; irides, 

 dark to reddish brown. 



Male. — jAu orbital crescent on upper and lower eye-lids, 

 not .meeting either before or behind, bright light yellow; a 

 blackish dusky lore spot; forehead, crown, occiput, ear- 

 coverts, back and sides of neck, back and scapulars, a 

 beautiful dark grass green, varying a little in intensity in 

 different specimens ; rump, similar or a shade greyer ; the 

 longest feathers more or less faintly tipped yellower, and ex- 

 cept in first class specimens, a good deal of the fluffy greyish 

 white bases of the feathers showing through ; tail and upper 

 tail-coverts, intense black, but with a faint bluish shine in some 

 lights, most noticeable on the coverts, which are short ; chin, 

 throat, breast, similar to back, but a shade yellower ; abdomen, 

 a little yellower still, and lower tail-coverts, pale pure yellow. 



A huge tuft of satiny white feathers on the flanks, overlaid 

 and concealed until the feathers are lifted by the slightly 

 yellowish green feathers of the sides of the abdomen. 



Wings, black ; two conspicuous snow white wing bars formed 

 by the broad white tippings of the median and greater coverts ; 

 all but the first 1, 2, or sometimes 3 quills, conspicuously 

 margined on their outer webs, with bright more or less yellow- 

 ish green ; these margins are rather broadest on the tertiaries, 

 and in these, and sometimes some of the latest secondaries, run 

 round the tips, and are here always palest, and in some speci- 

 mens quite white. 



Shoulder of wing, yellow or greenish yellow ; rest of wing- 

 lining and more or less of inner margins of quills, satin white. 



Female. — Differs in having tail and upper tail-coverts, 

 yellowish olive green — in having the wings, dark brown, the 

 wing bars, pale greenish yellow,* and the colored margins to 

 the quills, paler and yellower. In wanting the dusky lore 

 spot, thus allowing the yellow eye-lid lines to meet in front ; in 

 having the entire lower surface, but especially the chin and 

 throat paler and yellower than in the male. 



I am not aware that the two sexes have ever before been 

 properly described. f 



Iora tiphia, Lin. S. N. I. 331, 1766. 



(Ex Edwards' Birds, II., 70, t. 79, 1747, and Brisson's Fice- 

 dula bcngalensis, Av. III., 484, 1760). 



* It is this peculiarity which leads me to suggest that Iora cliloroptera, Salvad, 

 may be a synonym. 



t Since this was in type I have received the July number of the " Ibis " for 1877 in 

 which p. 304, pi. V, this species is figured. 



