162 MELIPHA&IDiE. 



l[ah. From Southern Amoorland, extending throughout China to 

 Moupin. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Pekiu, October 9, 1808. R. Swiuhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



12. Zosterops gouldi. 



Zosterops chloronotus, Gouldi ^'- ^- '^- 1840, p. 1G5 ; id. B. Audi: 

 fol. iv. pi. 82 (1818) ; Cab. Mus. Ilcin. i. p. 115 (1850). 



Zosterops sp., Gray, Gen.B.'i. p. 198(1848). 



Zosterops goiddi, " i>/J. Consp. i. p. 398 (1850); Gould, Ilandh. B. 

 Austr. i. p. 380 (1805) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1805, p. 19 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 103, no. 2134 (1809) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N. S. W. ii. p. 191 (1878). 



Adult male. General colour above olive-green, a little lighter on 

 the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; lessor wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater coverts ash}', edged with olive-green 

 like the back ; bastard-wing feathers blackish brown ; primary- 

 coverts ashy, edged with olive-green ; quills du.sky, edged with 

 olive-yellow, greener on the secondaries ; tail-feathers dusky, with 

 olive-yellow edges to the outer webs, white along the inner webs ; 

 head like the back, with a slight tinge of brighter yellow above the 

 lores ; lores dusky blackish, extending below the eye ; ring round 

 the eye silky white ; ear-coverts olive-green ; cheeks and throat jmle 

 olive-yellow, brighter ycUow on the throat ; fore neck and breast 

 pale ashy grey, inclining to dull whitish on the abdomen, which is 

 slightly washed with yellow ; sides of the body and flanks pale 

 cinnamon-brown ; thighs white, tinged with yeUow ; under tail- 

 coverts brighter yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 with a slight yellow tinge ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills 

 white ; " bill brown, lighter on the under mandible ; legs and feet 

 dark grey; iris wood-brown" {Gould). Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0'45, wing 2'15, tail 1*05, tarsus 0'6. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male, but the colours much paler, 

 the sides of the body being ashy with a slight isabeUine tinge ; 

 throat much ])aler yellow than in the male. Total length 4'3 inches, 

 culmen 0'45, wing 2- 15, tail 1'7, tarsus 0'65. 



Ilab. Western Australia. 



a. S ad. sk. Perth, W. Australia, April 27, Eytou Collection. 



1843 {J. Gould). 

 h. $ ad. sk. Perth, May 17, 1839 (J. Gould Collectiou. 



Gould). 



13. Zosterops grayi. 



Zosterops citviuella, Wall, (nee MillL), Ann. df May. Nat. Hist. (2) 



xx.p. 473 (1857) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 175; 'id. Cat. Mamm. 



4- Birds Neio Guiii. p! 25 (1859); id. P. Z. S. 1801, p. 434; 



Po.'ienb, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 237 ( 1863) ; Sharpe, Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 211, note (1879). 

 Zosterops grayi. Wall. P. Z. S. 1803, p. 494; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 



p. 104 (1805); Hartl.J.f. O. 1805, p. 23; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 163, no. 21.37 (1869) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. 



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