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REMARKS ON THE GENUS IORA. 



The females and males in non-breeding plumage have the 

 entire under-parts a pale mealy yellow, slightly shaded with 

 olive green ; the head is similar, but not quite so light; the nape 

 and entire back similar, but much more strongly overlaid with 

 olive green. 



The wings and tail are as in the breeding season, except that 

 the wings have the margins, specially of the tertiaries, very 

 conspicuous, and much tinged with pale yellow ; that the greater 

 coverts often have pale yellow margins besides the white tips; and 

 that the central tail feathers are almost entirely greyish white, 

 tipped purer white, and with the outer webs in many specimens 

 more or less shaded with ashy or occasionally olivaceous ashy. 



A. 0. H. 



Appendix. 



Review of Specimens examined in preparing the foregoing Notes on 



I. tiphia. 



W. 255 ; B.* 



Ceylon 



male 27-4 



fern. 16-12 W. 245 j B. 07 



Rameswaruin male 17-3 



W. 252 



fern. 17-3 W. 25 ; B. 07 



Anjango 



W. 2-47 



male 



* Travancore fern. 



* „ male 



Upper surface olive green, 

 fringed everywhere with black, 

 but most strongly on occiput 

 and back; lower wing bar 

 very narrow; quill margins 

 obsolete. 

 Precisely similar to females from 

 Singapore, Malacca, and 

 Tenasserim from Mergui to 

 Paphoon. 

 B. 068 Entire upper surface black, ex- 

 cept rump greenish yellow ; no 

 second wing bar ; quill mar- 

 gins wanting. 

 Absolutely identical with Ceylon 

 females. 

 B. 0'69 Precisely similar to previous 

 female. 



W. 255 ; B. 0-67 Head, nape, middle of back, 

 black ; upper back and rump 

 mingled black and green as in 

 Ceylon specimen, but lower 

 ■wing bar conspicuous; quill 

 margins very small. 

 W. 2-47 ; B. 0-63 Similar, but lower wing bar a 

 good deal reduced, but not so 

 much as in Ceylon specimen. 

 W. 2-54 ; B. 0'68 Similar, but less green on the 

 rump and upper back, and no 

 lower wing bar, and quill mar- 

 gins wanting. 

 B. 0'69 Absolutely identical with Cal- 

 cutta female. 

 In nearly typical plumage ; only 

 two spots on one wing remain 

 of second %ing bar ; black of 

 back a good deal mixed with 

 yellowish green. 



W. 2 46 ; 

 W. 24 ; 



B. 7 



* Bill measured most carefully with compasses from frontal bone to tip of upper 

 mandible, 



