163 MELIPn.VGIDiE. 



20. Zosterops citrinella. 



Zosterops citrinella, Bp. Consp. i. p. 398 (1850, ex Milll. MS. in Mus. 

 Lugd.) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 175 ; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 485 ; Harfl. J. f. 0. 1865, p. 22 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 164 

 (pt.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2146 (18G9). 



Adult female. General colour above olive-yellow, 'with concealed 

 grey bases to the feathers of the rump ; a little brighter yellow on 

 the upper tail-coverts ; Aving-covcrts like the back ; bastard-wing 

 feathers blackish ; quills dusky, externally olive-yellow ; tail-fea- 

 thers light brown, edged with olive on the outer web, and with ashy 

 whitish along the inner one ; crown of the head a little brighter 

 than the back, and with obsolete shaft-lines of paler yellow on the 

 fore part of the crown ; lores and base of the forehead orange- 

 ycUow ; feathers round the eye silky white, with a dusky spot in 

 front of the eye, extending below the eye in a blackish line ; ear- 

 coverts dull olive-yellow ; cheeks and throat bright golden yellow, 

 extending a little over the fore neck, but much duller ; breast and 

 abdomen ashy whitish, greyer on the sides of the body ; the flanks 

 faintly tinged with isabelline ; thighs yellowish, externally dusky ; 

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

 dull white, washed with yellow : quills light brown below, inner 

 edges whitish. Total length 3" 7 inches, culmen U'io, wing 2-1, 

 tail 1-35, tarsus 0-7. 



Male. Similar to the female, but a little brighter iu colour. 

 Total length -4-2 inches, cidmen 0-5o, wing 2-2, tail l-So, tarsus 0-6. 



This bird is merely a race of Z. palpchrosa, and only differs in 

 having the flanks pale isabelline instead of ashy. 



Hub. Island of Timor. 



a. $ ad. sk. Timor, June 1829 {S. Muller). Gould Collection. 



b. (S ad. sk. Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



21. Zosterops abyssinica. 



Zosterops abyssinica, Guerin, Reo. Zool. 1843, p. 162 ; id. ^ Lafr. in 

 Ferr. et Galiti. Voy. Abyss., Zool. iii. pi. 9. fig. 3 Q847) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 399 (1850) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2130 (1869) ; Blanf. Gaol. Sf Zool. Abyss. 

 p. 355 (1870) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 239 (1870). 



Sylvia madiigascariensis (iiec L.), Des Murs in Lefebvr. Voy. Abyss. 

 'p. 92(1845). 



Zosterops madagascariensis, Hupp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57 (1845) ; Heuyl. 

 Sysf. Uebers. p. 24, no. 199 (1850). 



Zosterops lateralis, pt., Heuyl. Ibis, 1861, p. 358 (7iec Lath.). 



Zosterops capensis, pt., Heiif/l. Ibis, 1861, p. 358 {nee Sund.). 



Zosterops habessinica, Heu!/l. J.f. O. 1862, p. 42; Hartl. J.f. O. 

 18(i5, p. 9; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 413, iv. pi. ex. (1869-71) ; 

 Scl. iy Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 1U8 ; Hartl. t. c. p. 054. 



Adult female. General colour above pale green, a little lighter on 

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

 coverts, bastard-wing, and primar^'-coverts ashy brown, externally 

 edged with green ; quills dusky, edged with yellowish green, lighter 

 on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts like the rump ; tail-feathers 



