lOEA TIPHIA. 
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mentioned the white-winged MaUirus {M, leucopterus, Plate 
VII. fig. 2), the male of w^hich is nearly entirely of a blue 
colour^ the wings, excepting on the quills, being of a snow- 
white. Other species have red in greater or smaller patches 
on the back (ilf. melanocephalus, Lamherti^ Brownii), The 
Emu Wren {Stipitums malachurus) is allied to these birds, 
and is curiously furnished with a singular, loose, webbed tail, 
which scarcely seems to belong to it; the feathers also of 
this tail have some resemblance to the curious double fea- 
thers of the gigantic Emu, — and hence the name of the little 
bird. 
One of the most common birds in every garden in India 
is the lora tipliia, a species closely allied to the Javanese 
one. It is a most restless and active bird, in its habits 
somewhat resembling our titmice. Mr. Jerdon notices it"^' 
as diligently and carefully searching the smaller branches 
and twigs of trees, climbing actively among them, peering 
under the leaves, and occasionally hanging, like a titmouse, 
from a slender twig, all the while keeping up a loud warbling 
strain, or a low querulous sort of note, very different from 
each other. ''^ He tells us that the name in Hindustan is 
Show-hheegaj and that the bird has acquired this name from 
* Madras Journal, vol. x. p. 248. 
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