170 



MELIPHAGIDiE. 



washed vrith pale j'ellow, greener on the edge of the wing ; quills 

 below dusky ; inner edge of quills whitish. Total length 4-iJ inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-45, tail 1-8, tarsus 07. 



The/(')?i«^c is smaller than the male (Heuglin). 



Obs. Z. i^oUogaster is lilco Z. capensis, and is very dark ashy 

 below, but is distinguished from that species by its bright yellow 

 frontal mark. 



Hah. N.E. Africa, extending probably along the eastern side of 

 the continent to South-eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia (Harris). India Museum. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Dongolo, Tigre, May 17, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



18G8. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Grahamstown, Jan. 1870 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. (Type 



(7". C. Atmore). oi Z.atmorii.) 



23. Zosterops anjuanensis. 



Zosterops anjuanensis, E. Newton, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 297, pi. xxxiii. 

 fig. 1 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. G7(>. 



Adult. General colour above olive-yellow, brighter on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, a little yellower 

 on the greater coverts ; bastard-wing blackish ; primary-coverts 

 and quills blackish, edged externally with dull olive-yellow, a little 

 brighter on the primaries, shading to ashy near the end of the outer 

 web ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with olive-green near the base, 

 narrowly fringed with ashy along tlie inner web ; crown of the head 

 like the back ; lores dusky black, surmounted by a bright spot of 

 yellow which extends onto the base of tho forehead ; a ring of 

 feathers round the eye silky white, with a duskj- line below ; ear- 

 coverts dull olive-yellow like the head ; cheeks and throat bright 

 yellow ; fore neck and breast ashy ; abdomen a little paler ashy white 

 towards the vent ; sides of the body and flanks pale isabeUine ; 

 thighs ashy, yellow towards the tarsal joint ; under tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, slightly 

 washed with yellow: quills below dusky; inner edge of quills 

 whitish. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2'2, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 0-7. (Mus. O. E. Shelley.) 



Ohs. Z. anpianensis is allied to Z.iwliogaster, but is pale isabeUine 

 below, almost as generally uniform underneath as Z. capensis. The 

 golden yellow on the forehead, however, distinguishes it from the 

 latter, and the blackness of the wings and tail separate it from 

 Z. lyoliogaster. 



Hah. Comoro group : Anjuau and Grand Comoro Islands. 



24. Zosterops madagascariensis. 



Le Petit Figiiier do Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 498, pi. 28. fig. 2 



(1760). 

 Motacilla maderaspatana, Linn. 8yd. Nat. i. p. .334 (176G). 

 Le Cheric, Bnf. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 279 (1778). 

 White-eyed Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. part 2, p. 475 (1783). 

 Motacilla madagascariensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 981 (1788). 



