690 THE BIRDS OF LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS, 



This is a smaller and less striking bird than Z. strenua, 

 resembling Z. coirulescens of Australia. I did not find its nest. 



718(M). 75.Z0STEROPS STRENUA Gould. 



Robust Silver-eye; Big Silver-eye(L.H.I.). 



Zosterops strenuus Gould, p.537; Ramsay, p. 37; Etheridge, 

 • Lord Howe Island,' p. 9. 



ffab. — Lord Howe Island. 



This very fine and large species of Zosterops is found in great 

 numbers at Lord Howe Island, where its powerful song makes 

 music all day long in the palm-glades and on the wooded hillsides. 

 Its nest is large, loosely constructed, and cup-shaped, composed 

 outwardly of palm-fibre, woven with dried grasses and lined with 

 finer material of the same kind, placed amongst the masses of 

 fibre clothing the under side of the crown of the Kentia palms; or 

 in shrubs overgrown with vines. During October, 1907, I found a 

 large number of old nests, many blown down and lying on the 

 ground, but none containing eggs or young birds.* Dimensions : 4 

 to 5 inches in width by 2 inches in depth; egg-cavity 2J inches in 

 width by 1 inch in depth. 



719(M). 76. Zosterops albigularis Gould. 



White-breasted Silver-eye; Grinnell(N.I.). 



Zosterops albigularis Gould, p.535; Ramsay, p. 37; North, 

 'Nests and Eggs,' p. 4 13. 



Hab. — Norfolk Island. 



This handsome Silver-eye is very plentiful in the vicinity of 

 dwellings, and especially favours the fruit-gardens with its 

 presence. It has a loud and not very musical note when in 

 flocks, and a number of the birds arguing together make a noise 

 similar to a mob of quarrelling house-sparrows. Solitary birds, 

 however, occasionally indulge in a long-sustained liquid song, 

 very pleasing to the ear. 



* Mr. Herbert Wilson has since sent me a nest of this species containing 

 two eggs, taken on 20th November, 1909. The eggs are of the usual Zosterops- 

 colour; pointed ovals. Dimensions : a,0*88xO-58; 6,082 xO'58. 



