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Canon Tristram verj' kindly lent me one of the types of this 

 species. I cannot attach much importance to the stoutness of the 

 bill or the extent of yellow on the throat ; but the under tail- 

 coverts are certainly white, while in all our specimens of Z. gt-iseo- 

 noia thej are more or less yellow. Considering, however, how even 

 this chai'acter varies in specimens from different localities, I antici- 

 pate that Z. vatensis may be matched in this respect with skins 

 from the other islands of the New Hebrides group. 



7. Zosterops inornata. 



Zosterops inornata, U. L. ^- C. L. Lai/nrd, Ibis, 1878, p. 259 ; Tristr. 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 186, pi. 4.12; E. L. S)- L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 224. 



Adult male. General colour above dull ashy grey on mantle, 

 scapulars, and upper back ; rump and upper tail-coverts dull olive- 

 green ; lesser -wing-coverts olive-greenish, a little more yellowish 

 olive on the median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing feathers 

 dusky blackish ; primary-coverts and quills dusk}', edged with dull 

 olive-yellow, a little brighter on the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, 

 ■with olive-green margins ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck dull 

 olive-yellow ; lores dull white ; round the eye a very narrow ring 

 of whitish feathers ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat dull olive-yellow, 

 a little clearer on the latter ; fore neck and breast dull ashy grey ; 

 abdomen ashy whitish ; sides of body and flanks dusky isabelline 

 brown ; thighs ashy whitish, tinged yellow ; under tail-coverts pale 

 olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries ashy whitish ; quills 

 below dusky ; inner edge of quills ashy white ; " biU corneous ; legs 

 pale salmon-colour ; iris drab " {Laijard). Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-75, wing 2-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0'8. 



Female. Like the male in colour, but the breast slightly overshaded 

 with olive-green. Total length 5*3 inches, culmen 0"8, wing 2*9, 

 tail I-!*, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. Loyalty Islands. 



a. S ad. sk. Lifu, Lovalty Islands, E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



Aug. 18, 1878. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Lifu, Jan. 13, 1878. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Zosterops aureifrons. 



Zosterops am-eifi'ons, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 493 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 

 1805, p. 24; Finsch, Neu-Gmnea,-o. 164 (1805); Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 1C2, no. 2125 (1869). 



Male. General colour above oUve-yeUow, with slightly indicated 

 paler yellow shaft-lines ; the rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 golden yellow ; wing-coverts like the back; edge of the wing bright 

 yellow ; ([uills dusky brown, externally olive-yellow, a little brighter 

 on the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, washed with oHve and 

 edged with olive-yeUow ; crown of the head golden olive, the forehead 

 brighter orange-yellow : lores and feathers round the eye golden 



