ua 



MEUrnAGID^. 



bove tlic ear-coverts, chin and cheeks, aud a finely developed 

 crescent across the chest white; throat and neck all round chest- 

 nut-red ; breast, abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts pale bulF, 

 this colour being separated from the white crescent by another 

 one of brownish black; imder wing-coverts and inner margin of 

 quills whitish. Culmcn O'9-l inch, wing 2-5, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 

 Hab, Western and South-western Australia. 



a. (J ad.; b. Juv. sk. 

 c. cJ ad. sk. 



cl. c? ad. sk. 



e,f. S2 ad. sk. 



S. AustraHa. 



King George's Soimd, 



April 1841. 

 King George's Sound, 



April 1841. 

 Perth, VV. Australia. 



Sir George Grey [P.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq.'[C.]. 



Gould Collection. 



J. Gould, Esq. [G.]. 



Subfamily II. ZOSTEROPIN^. 



Key to the- Genera, 

 a. First primary extremely short or wanting. . 1. Zostebops, p. 146. 

 h. First primary about one fourth the length 

 of the second ; tail slightly emargiuated ; 



bill shorter than the rest of the head . . 2. Melitheeptes, 

 c. Fir^t primaiy about one thhd to one half [p. 204. 



the length of the second ; biU shorter than 



head and very straight: tail square .... 3. PLECTEORH.\Mpnrs, 



[p. 208. 



1. ZOSTEROPS*. 



lype. 

 Zosterops, Vi(/. ^- Horsf. Trans. Limi. 8oc. xv. p. 2.35 



(1827) Z. caerulesceus. 



Speirops, Reichenb. Handb., Meroj). p. 93 (1851) .... Z. lugubris. 



Malacirops, Bj). C. R. xxxviii. p. 264 (1854) Z. borbonica. 



Cyclopterops, Rp. loc. cH. p. 264 Z. chloronota. 



Oreosterops, Bj). loc. cit. p. 264 Z. fallax. 



Parinia, Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 71 (1857) Z. leucophasa. 



Heleia, Hartl. J.f. 0. 1865, p. 26 Z. mueUeri. 



Zosteropisylvia, Fr. Wilrt., teste Heugl. J.f. 0. 1807, 



p. 295 Z. seuegalensis. 



Tephras, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1868, p, 6 Z. hnschii. 



* Tlie genus Zosterops has been described for this volume by Mr. E. Bowdler 

 Sharpe. 



As the f ollcwing species have not been seen by the above-named author, he has 

 not been able to detei'mine them from the descriptious : — 



ZOSTEROPS FUSCA. 



Zosterops fusca, rcrnsf. J.f. 0. 1864, p. 406; Fhuc/i, J. f. 0. 1866, p. 139 • 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2139 (1869) ; Roscnb. Malay. Archil^, p. 586 



(1879) ; Sakad. Ann. Mm. Civic. Genov. svi. p. 80 (1880) ; id. Orn. 



Paptiasia, ii. p. 363 (1881). 



Dusty above, -with a grejish-olive tinge ; throat and eye-ring white ; upper 



breast olire dusky, below whitish ; bill dusky ; feet bluish grey ; iris rufescent 



