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Certliia cferulesccns, Lath. Iml. Orn. Siippl. p. xxxviii (1801). 



Syhia lateralis, Lath. t. c. p. Iv (ISOI). 



Zosteiops dorsalis, Viff. i^ Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 235 (1826) ; 



Gould, B. Austr. fol. iv. pi. Si (1848) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1805, p. 19; 



Taijlur, Ann. >.y Ma(i. Nat. Hist. Qi) xviii. p. 140 (1806); Button, 



Urn, 1870, p. .398; ^Finsch, J. f. O. 1870, p. 108; Buller, Man. B. 



KexD Zealand, p. 12 (lb82). 

 Zosterops lateralis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848) ; Bidler, Trans N. 



Zeal Inst. 1870, p. IC, pi. 3 ; Putts, t. c. p. 59, pi. 12 ; Buller, B. 



New Zealand,^. 01 (1872) ; Huttun, Ibis, 1872, p. 244. 

 Zosterops ciBrulesceus, Blyth, Cat. B. 3Ius. As. Soc. p. 220 (1849) ; 



Bp. C'o««/;.i. p. .398(1850) ; Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 587(1805) ; 



Sharpe, Voy. Erebus S) Terror, Birds, Ai>p. p. 24 (1875) ; Gray, 



Sand-l. B. i. p. lOl, no. 2107 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



K. S. Wales, ii. p. 191 (1878). 

 ? Zosterops australis, Mamsay, Ibis, 1863, p. 180. 



Male. General colour above dark ashy grey on the hind neck, 

 mantle, scapulars, and upper part of the back, olive-yellow on the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts ashy brown, 

 broadly washed with olive-yellow on the outer web ; the bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts more narrowly edged with the latter colour ; 

 quills dusky brown, margined with olive-yeUow, broader on the 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers also dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow ; 

 crown of the head and nape duU olive-yellow, with a lighter yellow tint 

 at the base of the forehead ; lores blackish, as also a streak below 

 the eye ; a ring of feathers round the eye silvery white ; ear-coverts 

 like the head ; cheeks and chin dull olive-yellowish, extending down 

 the sides of the throat, whicli with the fore neck and chest is ashy, 

 fading off into dull white on the breast and abdomen ; sides of the 

 body and flanks deep tawny buff or light chestnut : thighs and under 

 tail-coverts white, the latter washed with yellow; under wing-coverts 

 and axiUaries white ; quills ashy brown below, inner edges white ; 

 " upper mandible dark brown, under mandible lighter : feet grcvish 

 brown ; iris greyish brown "' (Gou^d). Total length 4-6 inches, 

 culmen 0-4.5, wing 2-4, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but all the colours on the upper 

 surface duller, and on the under surface paler, the grey colour on 

 the throat and the fulvous colour on the flanks. 



Hah. Australia ; New Zealand ; Chatham Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Moreton Bay. Gould Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Gould Collection. 



c. Ad. sk. Bathurst, N. S. W. Zoological Society. 



d, e. Juv. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey"[P.]. 

 f,y. Ad. et iimn. sk. Tasmania. E. Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Gould Collection. 



i. Ad. sk. Australia. Limiean Society. 



(Type of Z. dorsalis.) 

 k, I. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Henry T. Wharton, 



E.q. [P.]. 

 >n, n. Ad. sk. New Zealand. Gould Collection. 



0. Ad. sk. Wangauui, New Zealand. Eichard Taylor, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 p. Ad. sk. South Island, N. Z. J. ^Vhite, Esq. [P.]. 



