288 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



133. — CiNNTRis ASPASiiE, Less., Voy. Goq. Zool. 7., p. 676, No. 100. 

 pi SO. fig. -4 (1826) ; Shelley, Mon. Cinnr., pi. V.,fig. 2. 



Specimens of this beautiful Sun-bird were obtained by 

 Morton on the Laloki River, in habits and actions it closely re- 

 sembles the Australian Sun-bird, G. frenata, S. Mull ; builds the 

 same kind of nest, and lays two to four eggs, white, with small 

 blackish dots on the larger end. 



This species was by no means common. On comparing it 

 with those obtained by the Rev. George Brown at the Dul^e of 

 York Islands,* I find it smaller in all its measurements, and the 

 males from Port Moresby have a more violet-purple tint on the 

 throat ; the wings are browner, but this may be from immaturity ; 

 the tail is shorter, and the bill longer and narrower. From 

 Captain G. E. Shelley's excellent monograph, I take the Port 

 Moresby bird to be G. aspasice, of Lesson ; and those from the 

 Duke of York Islands I should take to be G. aspasioides, were it 

 not for the lilac purple tinge on the throat ; but the Duke of 

 York birds have more of a steel-blue tinge than those from Port 

 Moresby. The following are the measurements of a male from 

 each locality : — 



ZOSTEROPID^. 



134. — ZOSTEROPS LONGIROSTRIS, sp. nov. 



Adult Male' All the upper surface greenish yellow, wings 

 and tail dark brown, outwardly margined with greenish yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts white, tinged with yellow on the shoulders ; 

 inner webs of the quills, except at the tips, white ; all the under 



* Since writing the above, I find Dr Salvador!. (Atti della Reale Ace. Sc. Tor, Xllt, 

 24tMarzo, 1878) has separated the birds from the Duke of York Islands, collected by Mr. 

 Brown from the C. aspasice, of Lesson, and bestowed on them the name of Hermotimia 

 (Cinnyris) corinna. 



