Editing Common iora (section)

==Description==
Ioras have a pointed and notched beak with a culmen that is straight. The common iora is sexually dimorphic, males in the breeding season have a black cap and back adding to a black wing and tail at all seasons. Females have greenish wings and an olive tail. The undersides of both are yellow and the two white bars on the wings of the male are particularly prominent in their breeding plumage. The males in breeding plumage have a very variable distribution of the black on the upperparts and can be confused with [[Marshall's iora]], however, the latter always has white tips to the tail.<ref name=pcr>{{cite book|author1=Rasmussen PC |author2=JC Anderton |year=2005| title= Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Volume 2|publisher=Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions|pages=344–346}}</ref> The nominate subspecies is found along the Himalayas and males of this population are very similar to females or have only a small amount of black on the crown. In northwestern India, ''septentrionalis'' is brighter yellow than others and in the northern plains of India ''humei'' males in breeding plumage have a black cap and olive on the upper mantle. In southwestern India and Sri Lanka ''multicolor'' has the breeding males with a jet black cap and mantle. The forms in the rest of southern India are intermediate between ''multicolor'' and ''humei'' with more grey-green on the rump (formerly considered as ''deignani'' but now used for the Burmese population).<ref name=pcr/><ref name=fbi2>{{cite book|pages=339–343|url=https://archive.org/stream/faunaofbritishin01bake#page/339/mode/1up|author=Baker, ECS|title=Fauna of British India. Birds. Volume 1| publisher=Taylor and Francis, London|year=1922|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Wells, D.R.|author2=E.C. Dickinson|author3=R.W.R.J. Dekker|name-list-style=amp| title= Systematic notes on Asian birds. 34. A preliminary review of the Aegithinidae|journal=Zool. Verh. Leiden |volume=344| year=2003|pages= 7–15|url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/46744}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Dickinson, E.C. |author2=R.W.R.J. Dekker |author3=S. Eck |author4=S. Somadikarta |name-list-style=amp |title=Systematic notes on Asian birds. 35. Types of the Aegithinidae |journal=Zool. Verh. Leiden |volume=344 |year=2003 |pages=17–24 |url=http://www.naturalis.nl/sites/naturalis.en/contents/i000308/snab035.pdf |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026003824/http://www.naturalis.nl//sites/naturalis.en/contents/i000308/snab035.pdf |archive-date=2007-10-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Yellow Bird India.jpg|thumb|Common Iora, Male, Pune]]
Several other populations across Southeast Asia are designated as subspecies including ''philipi'' of southern China and northern Thailand/Laos, ''deignani'' of Myanmar, ''horizoptera'' of southern Myanmar and the island chain of Sumatra, ''cambodiana'' of Cambodia, ''aeqanimis'' of Palawan and northern Borneo, ''viridis'' of Borneo and ''scapularis'' of Java and Bali.<ref>{{cite book|pages=300–302|url=https://archive.org/stream/checklistofbirds91960pete#page/300/mode/1up/|title=Check-list of the birds of the world. Volume 9|editor=Mayr E|editor2=JC Greenway|editor-link=Ernst Mayr|editor2-link=James Greenway|year=1960|publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology, Massachusetts}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Marien, D |year=1952| title= The systematics of ''Aegithina nigrolutea'' and ''Aegithina tiphia'' (Aves, Irenidae)| journal= Am. Mus. Novit.|volume=1589|pages=1–17| hdl=2246/4066}}</ref>