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REMARKS ON THE GENUS IORA. 



Malacca male a Nine specimens; dates uncertain; wings 2-45,255, 



2-42, 2 '49, 2-56, 2-52, 245, 2-47, 2-48. Bills 066, 

 68, 0-6, 071, 0-7, 0-69, 7, 73, 0'64. All matchable 

 with Southern Indian specimens in different stages, 

 some with a great deal of black on crown and 

 back. All showing more black than in typical 

 tiphia, and none in quite the full zeylonica plu- 

 mage. In no specimen is yellow of throat more 

 golden than in the Rameswaram male. 

 fern, s Seven specimens ; dates uncertain ; inseparable from 



Cingalese and Bengal females. 

 6-10 W. 2 4; B. 65 Identical with Ceylon specimen 



Nealys, 31 m. fern. 

 for Malacca. 



male 17-10 

 „ 19-10 



6-10 

 6-10 



6-10 



Pulo Soban, 

 22 m. from 

 Malacca. 



Singapore 



fern, 

 malt 



6-10 

 10-11 



27-10 

 7-8 



7-8 



7-8 

 23-9 



Palimbong 

 (Sumatra). 



fern. 



male 



Banjermassing fern. 26-2 



(Borneo.) P 

 Tugal** ? 

 (Java). 



? male 



W. 2-65; B. 07 

 W- 25; B. 065 

 W. 26; B. 0'69 



W. 2 52 



B. 62 



W. 2 5; B. 073 



W. 2 63 



W. 2-52 ; 

 W. 237 ; 



B. 066 



") May be said generally to 

 be precisely similar to a Cey- 

 lon female, except for having 

 black wings and tail. Three 

 of them, however, are just per- 

 ceptibly greener, and of these 

 j-three, one has a little black 

 shading on the back, one is 

 appreciably greener, two ab- 

 solutely identical. The first 

 specimen has the tip of the 

 tail much overlaid with olive 

 J green. 

 W. 242; B. 06 Above olive green; all the fea- 

 thers fringed at the tip with 

 black, forming an irregular 

 black mottling on crown, nape 

 and back. 



B. 6 -3 Identical with Ceylon female. 



B. 7'0 Like a Ceylon female, but rather 

 greener and paler below. 

 Entire back jet black ; hinder 

 part of crown, occiput and 

 nape dark olive green ; feathers 

 conspicuously fringed black at 

 the points. Absolutely undis- 

 tinguishable from some South- 

 ern Indian males. 



B. 0-62 Similar to Pulo Seban male. 



B. 0'6 Olive green, slightly shaded, but 

 no where spotted with black. 

 N.T5. — In none of these speci- 

 mens can the yellow be cor- 

 rectly said to be a bit more 

 golden than in many breeding 

 males from Anjango, Mysore, 

 Paunben and Ceylon. 



B. - 65 Identical with Ceyion specimen. 



W. 2 4; B. 07 



W. 245 ; 

 W. 2'55; 



W. 255 ; 



W. 2-47 ; 

 W. 265; 



W. 245 ; 



W. 25 ; 



B. 0-63 Ditto. 



B. 07 Absolutely identical with second, 



January Calcutta male, 

 B. 0'68 Precisely iike all females. 



B. 069 A shade greener I think than 



any other. 

 B. 0-63 Identical with Ceylon. 

 B, 005 Identical with first Calcutta male. 



? • W. 2-48 ; 

 „ ? W. 26; 



[N.B. — Specimens to which a * is prefixed were kindly lent me from the Indian 

 Museum by Dr. Anderson, the Director ; those to which a f are prefixed were lent mo 

 by Mr. Bail. The rest are in my own museum.] 



Name not distinctly legible. 



