] 56 MELIPHAGIDiE. 



Dacnis westeniensis, Quoi/ ei Gaim. Voy.de TAsfroIA. p. 215, pi. 11. 



%. 4 (1830). 

 Zostorops westernensis, Reichenh. Handh., Merop. p. 93, pi. 402. fig. 



3302 (c. 1852) ; Hartl J. f. 0. 1865, p. 20 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 163, uo. 2136 (18G9). 

 Zosterops flaviceps, Fealc, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 95, pi. 25. fig. 5 



(1848); Cass. U.S. E.vpl. E.vped. p. 167, pi. 10. fig. 4(1858); 



Grmj, Cat. B. Trop. Is!. Pacific Ocean, p. 15 (1869) ; Hartl. J. 



f. O. 1865, p. 21 ; Finsch 8,- Hartl. Faun. Centralpohjn. p. 52, 



pi. i., pi. vi. fig. 7 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2142 



(1869) ; Laxjard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 430 ; id. Ibis, 1876, pp. 153, 392 ; 



Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 733 ; id. Toy. ' Challenger^ ii. p. 48, pi. xiv. 



fig. 1 (1881). 

 Zosterops tephropleura, Goxdd, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 166 ; id. B. Austr. 



Siippl. pi. 49 (1859) ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 538 (1865) ; Hartl. 



J.f. O. 1865, p. 18; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2109. 

 Zosterops griseonota, Gray, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 161; id. Cat. B. Trop. 



Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 15 (1859) ; Verr. Be». et Mag. de Zool. 



1800, p.' 435 ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 222 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, 



p. 20 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2113 (1869) ; Marie, Actes 



Soc. Linn. Bordeanx, xxvii .p. 327 (1870) ; E. L. &,• L. C. Layard, 



Ibis, 1878, pp. 259, 270, 280. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey on the mantle, upper back, 

 and scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow, 

 a little brighter on the latter ; ■wing-coverts, bastard-wing feathers, 

 and primary-coverts dusky ashj' brown, edged with olive-yellow ; 

 quills dusky, also narrowly edged with olive-yellow; tail-feathers ashy 

 brown, edged on the outer webs with olive-yellow, and along the 

 inner webs with whitish ; crown of head and nape dull olive-yellow ; 

 hind neck like the back, as also the sides of the neck ; lores yellow ; 

 in front of the eye a dusky spot, extending in a blackish line back 

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

 duU olive-yellow like the crown ; cheeks and throat a little brighter 

 yellow, the throat sharply defined ; fore neck and chest ashy grey, 

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

 body and flanks very pale tawny brown ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with a faint tinge of yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills 

 white. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-4, tail 1-8, 

 tarsus 6. 



Oht,. An Australian specimen has been described, and it is ex- 

 traordinary that a bird which seems to be widely distributed on 

 that continent should so much have escaped notice, the only allu- 

 sion to the species that I can find in Mr. Gould's work being a 

 passage where he mentions that some specimens of Z. ccendescens 

 have the "throat wax-yellow." It seems to be the Z. westernensis 

 (Q. & G.), a species re-iastated in the system by Dr. Hartlaub 

 (J. f. 0. 1865, p. 20). 



I believe that Z. ramsayr of Masters is the same species, as I cannot 

 find in the description any character wherein it differs ; and with 

 regard to Mr. Masters's remark that " the very large zone of white 

 feathers round the eye will always serve to distinguish this from all 



