164 MELIPHAGIBiE. 



centre tail-featliers dull olive-bro-mi, remainder dusky olive-yellow 

 on. outer web ; crown of head scarcely ycUower than hack ; lores 

 dusky, with a large spot of bright yeUow above ; ring of feathers 

 round eye silky white, with a broad line of black below ; ear-coverts 

 like the' head ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck bright yellow ; breast, 

 sides of body, and flanks clear ashy grey, with a broad wash of 

 yellow down the centre of the body ; lower abdomen whitish ; thighs 

 yellow, olive behind ; under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries whitish, washed with yellow, quills below 

 blackish, ashy on their inner edge ; " bill — maxiUa blackish, man- 

 dible and legs pale grey ; iris yellowish brown " (A. Everett). Total 

 length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-1, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-Go. 



The female is like the male, but not quite so yellow on the 

 abdomen. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2, tail l-o, 

 tarsus 0"65. 



Rab. Philippine Islands, 

 a. c? ad.sk. Bmag&t, Jnuei A. JSverett). Capt.E.G.WardlawKamsay. 



16. Zosterops albiventer. 



Zosterops a ventre blauc, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 19. 



fig. 3 (1842-53). 

 Zosterops sp., Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 398 



(1850). 

 Zosterops albiventris, Reichenh. Handb., Merop. p. 92, sp. 195, Taf. 



461. fio-. 3298 (1852) ; Jacq. et Pucher. Voy. Pule Sitd, Zool. texte, 



iii. p. "95 (1853); Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 164; Eosenh. J.f. O. 



1864, p. 123; Harll. J.f. O. 1865, p. 21; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 163, no. 2138 (1809) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xvi. p. 81 



(1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. p. 366 (1881). 

 Zosterops flavogularis, Masters, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Tf. i. p. 56 



(1877); Ramsay, op. cit. ii. p. 191 (1878). 

 Zosterops luteus {nee Gould), Forbes, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 125 ; id. Voy. 



' CTiallenyer; ii. p. 89 (1881). 



Adult female. General colour above olive-yellow, a little brighter 

 on the rump ; lesser wing- coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts ashy brown, externally like the back ; bastard-wiug feathers 

 blackish ; primary-coverts and quills ashy brown, externally olive- 

 yellow, a little brighter on the primaries, which are ashy whitish 

 towards the tip of outer webs ; inner secondaries externally like the 

 back : tail-feathers dusky brown, with olive-yellow margins, and 

 whitish edges along the inner webs ; lores brighter yellow, running 

 from the base of the foreliead to abo^•e the fore part of the eye ; 

 feathers rouiid the eye silvery white, with a dusky blackish spot in 

 front running below the eye ; ear-coverts olive-yeUow ; cheeks, 

 throat, and fore neck bright yellow ; remainder of tlie under surface 

 pale ashy, whiter in the centre of the breast and abdomen, the 

 latter faintly washed with yellow ; sides of the body and flanks 

 light ashy like the breast ; thighs yellow, externally dusky olive ; 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow : under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, faintly tinged with yellow : edge of the wing bright yellow ; 

 quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills white. Total length 4-6 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-3, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-7. 



