160 MELIPHAGID^. 



yellow ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; ear-coverts golden olive ; 

 cheeks and throat golden yellow ; fore neck, breast, sides of body, 

 and flanks light bluish grey ; the abdomen white ; thighs olive- 

 yellow ; under tail-covcrts golden yellow ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, the edge of the wing golden yellow ; quills light 

 brown below, inner edges ashy whitish. Total length 4-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-15, tail 1-65, tarsus 0'7. 

 Hah. Flores and Sumbawa. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



Zosterops pallida 



%-a,/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2155(1869). 

 Zosterops lateralis, Swidev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. FMi. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 101 (nee Lath.) ; £p. ConspA. p. 3!)9 (1850) ; Hemjl. Ibis, 1861, 



p. 3o8 ■jLcn/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 117 ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 367. 

 Zosterops suiidevalli, Haril. J. f. O. 1805, p. 8 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 162, no. 2132 (1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 36 (1871) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 404. 

 Zosterops capensis, Gurnei/, Ibis, 1869, p. 292, 1873, p. 280. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, decidedly clearer 

 and more yellow on the upper tail-covcrts ; forehead and lores bright 

 yellow ; in front of the eye a black spot, extending in a line under 

 the eye ; round the eye a ring of silvery-white feathers ; sides of 

 face and ear-coverts olive-green ; cheeks and entire throat bright 

 yeUow, ending abruptly on the fore neck ; centre of the body whitish, 

 slightly washed with tawny ; sides of upper breast greyish brown ; 

 the flanks pale isabelline brown ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts dull white, washed with yellow on the edge of 

 the wing ; upper wing-coverts green like the back ; quills dark 

 brown, the primaries externally margined with yellowish green, the 

 secondaries with olive-green ; tail-feathers brown, with olive-green 

 edgings. Total length 4-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-35, tail 1 -9, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. South Africa, along the Orange Eiver and extending into 

 the Transvaal. 



a. Ad. sk. Colesbcrg (Ortlepp). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. S ad. sk. Potcliefstroom, June R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1871 (T. Ayres). 



c. Ad. sk. Transvaal (T. Ayres). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Orange River. Dr. R. F. Bradshaw [P.]. 



10. Zosterops japonica. 



Zosterops japonica, Temm. S,- Schler/. Fauna Japon., Aves, p. 57, pi. 22 

 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 399 (1850) ; Reicheiib. Handb., Merop. 

 p. 92, pi. 461. fig.3296 (1852) ; Cass, in Perry's Exp. p. 221 (1856) ; 

 Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 14; Grarj, Ilund-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2124; 

 BlaUst. si Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 230 ; id. List B. Japan, p. 153. 



