PAKHI DEKHOON PAKHI CHINOON #647. OBSERVE THE BIRD AND RECOGNIZE...MARSHALS IORA ... WATERCOLOUR...A4.. 2016..[From the photograph of Megh Roy Choudhury MAAM]... The white-tailed iora or Marshall's iora (Aegithina nigrolutea), is a songbirdin the genus Aegithina found in parts of India and Sri Lanka.
The status of the species has been debated and has only recently been given full species status. Earlier suggestions have been that it was aclinal variant of the common ioraAegithina tiphia.
The diagnostic features of the species are the short wing and tail; white edging to tertials converging broadly at the tip, versus tertial tips black to only narrowly white in tiphia and a smaller and shorter bill than tiphiafrom any part of India. The vocalizations are also different. The species is best known from northwestern India, however only a few verified specimen records exist from southern India. It is now also known from Sri Lanka.
12128 cm; male 1114g, female 1014 g (N India); on present evidence, smaller in S India and Sri Lanka.
Diet arthropods, including insect imagines and larvae. Hunts alone or in pairs, but joins mixed foraging parties after breeding season. [INFO:WIKIPEDIA]
