570 TiMELiinj;. 



of the species. In some specimens the grey on the chest takes the 

 form of dusky ashy streaks. 



Hab. Malayan peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Range. Madagascar. 



1. Xanthomixis zosterops. 



Bernieria zosterops, Sliarpe, P. Z. >S. 1875, p. 76, figs. 2, 3 (heads) ; 



Ilartl. Vog. Madag. p. 146 (1877). 

 Xanthomixis zosterops, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 196. 



Adult (type of species ; supposed /ejna/e). Above dull olive-green, 

 more dingy on the head ; a loral stripe and a circlet of feathers round 

 the eye bright yellow ; feathers between the bill and the eye black ; 

 ear-coverts dark green, with bright yellow shaft-stripes ; entire 

 under surface of body bright yellow, the sides of the body and 

 thighs olive-green ; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, the edge of 

 the wing bright yellow ; wings and tail brown, margined with greenish 

 olive, the inner secondaries dull olive-brown, the inner wobs ful- 

 vesceut on their interior margin ; bill horn-brown, the lower man- 

 dible yellowish ; feet light fleshy brown. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen O-ij, wing 2-G5, tail 2*7, tarsus 0-8. 



No carefully dissected specimens have as yet been examined by 

 me ; but it is probable that, as in the case of the allied genus Ber- 

 nieria, the sexes do not differ in colour, but only in size, and that 

 the male is larger than the female. A bird collected by Mr. Crossloy 

 is probably a male, as it measures 0'7 in the culmen and 2-75 in 

 the wing. 



* No. 2.575 of Eyton's Cat. (]}. 184). Marked '• Malaccrpteroti cincreum, o-igi- 

 nal specimen ;" but it is evidently not the type {ddc nupi-fi, p. ,j(ifi.). 



