298 XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXI. 1914. 



Knmnri and Upper Aroa Rivers, appear to belong to the eastern race, while the 

 birds from German New Guinea (Simbang, Stephansort, Friedrich Wilhelmshafeu) 

 belong to the darker-backed western form, which ranges also to the Am Islands 

 and west, by way of some of the Molaccan Islands, to the Snla group, east of 

 Celebes. 



Mr. Arthur Goodson, of the Tring Museum, has pointed out to us that the 

 name " C.Jlava'" is considerably antedated by G:o\\\A^s.jiari(jiistra, as above. 



We have received 7 c?(J (Nos. 5947, 5996, 6U45, 6105, 0119, 0143, 0106), and 

 5 ? ? (Nos. 6104, 6106, 6142, 6158, 6168), from Manns, collected in the months of 

 September and October. 



40. Zostei'ops admiralitatis Kothsch. k Hart. 



Znsterops admiralHalk Rothschild and Hartert, Bull. B. 0. Club xxxiii. p. 108 (HIU— Manus). 



S ? ad. " Top and sides of head brownish-black, round the eye a white ring, 

 interrupted in front ; rest of the npperside yellowish green, passing into greenish 

 yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts. Quills brownish black, all except the 

 first, which is entirely black, and the last ones, which are like the back, edged on 

 the outer web with greenish yellow, on the inner one with yellowish white. Tail 

 brownish black. Throat varying from yellowish olive to dirty yellow, jugnlum and 

 breast yellow, washed with olivaceous green ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; under wing-coverts yellowish white. 



" Wings 54-57 mm. 



" Iris reddish brown ; bill black, slate-blue at base ; feet slaty bine." 



We have used a binomial ajipellation for this new form, though there is hardly 

 any doubt that it will eventually be treated as a snbspecies oi Z. fiiscicapilla, like 

 kypoxantlw: ; but the time has not come to nicely group the many forms of the genus 

 Zosterops into species and snbspecies, and we therefore refrain, for the time being, 

 from using trinomials for the " white-eyes." Z. admiralitatis differs from 

 Z. fascicapilla (Arfak) in its bright yellew abdomen, less uniform throat, and 

 brighter rump and upper tail-coverts. From Z. Injpoxaiitha (New Britain) it differs 

 chiefly in the colour of the throat, which is golden yellow in the latter. 



Meek's collectors sent twelve specimens from Manns, collected in the months 

 of September and October (Nos. 5960, 5984, 6057, 0060, 6122, 6132, 6133, 6141, 

 0146, 6159, 0104, 016.5). 



