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T. Zosterops crassirostris sp. nov. 



<f ad. Feathers of forehead yellowish white ; those of crown blackish brown, 

 •with broad whitish margins, which become more brownish and less conspicuous 

 towards the nape, where they have vanished altogetlier. Lores, feathers in front of 

 the eye, a narrow superciliary line, and feathers under the eye black, the latter 

 fading into dark brown towards the ear-coverts. Eyelids bare, with only a very 

 narrow ring of tiny scaly feathers of a blackish colour round the eyes ; behind the 

 «yes a large naked spot. All the rest of the upper parts of a j)ale olive colour, with 

 a greenish wash. Quills deep brown, with a very pale buff inner lining and light 

 olive-brown outer edges. Tail-feathers brown, with olive outer margins. Entire 

 under surface whitish bnfl"; sides of breast and iianks with a brownish wash. Thighs 

 brown. " Iris naples-yellow ; bill lead-grey ; legs flesh-colour; nails grey." Total 

 length about 130 mm.: wing 71; tail 56: cnlmen from base 10; bill from end of 

 feathering 143; tars. 20—21. ? like 6. 



Hab. South Flores. 



8. Zosterops superciliaris sp. nov. 



? ad. Crown greenish olive, with a dark brown wash. Utmost base of fore- 

 head just above the nostrils and lores pale sulphur-yellow ; superciliary line from 

 lores over eyes to end of head suljihur-yellow. The usual Zosteropine white ring 

 round the eyes conspicuous and broad: sides of head olive-grey, with a silvery gloss. 

 Rest of upper surface olive-green, brighter green on back and rump. Quills dark 

 brown; inner lining very pale yellow ; outer edges light olive-greeu. Below sulphur- 

 yellow; sides of breast, flanks, and thighs with an olive-green wash. Total length 

 about 127 mm.: wing 67 — 6U; tail 52 — .53; cnlmen from base of foreliead 16; exposed 

 part of cnlmen 12; tarsus 19'9. 



$ ad. like ? . 



Hah. South Flores. 



9. Trichoglossus forsteni djampeaniis sulisj). uov. 



In Vol. III. of the Novitates Zoologicae, p. 17(), when speaking of the series 

 collected by Mr. Everett in Djampea, I already mentioned some slight differences 

 between the birds from Djampea and the one from Sambawa in the Tring Museum. 

 Again on p. 672 I mentioned that two birds sent from Bima in Sambawa, whence 

 the tj-pe of T. forsteni in the Leyden Museum came, agreed with the one collected 

 in Sambawa and not with those from Djampea. Now we have received, with some 

 other birds from Sambawa, from Mr. Everett, five more skins of tyjtical T. forsteni 

 from Sambawa, and they dispel all our doubts as to the differences between the two 

 forms. 



In T. forsteni forsteni from Samliawa the forehead is not so deep blue as in 

 T. forsteni c/jampeanus, the wing is shorter, the band behind the yellowish green 

 ring on the neck is never so distinctly and ])ure i)urple, and never so broad as in all 

 the birds from Djampea. 



The wings of T. forsteni forsteni measure 131 — I3o mm., those of T. forsteni 

 (Ijampeanus 141 — 145 mm. Young Djampean birds are very much like adult ones 

 from Sambawa: young birds of the latter have the hinder jwrt of the crown more or 

 less green, the middle of the abdomen mixed with green, the red breast-feathers 

 margined with dull dark edges, no indication of a blue band on the hind-neck. 



