1. ZOSTEEOPS. 171 



Sylvia leucops, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 441 (1823). 

 Zosterops madag.ascariensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 399 (1850) ; jRcichenh. Ilandh., Mevop. p. 90, pi. 460. 



fitr. 3289 (c. 18/52) ; Harfl Faun. Madufj. p. 40 (18G1) ; Heiujh 



Ibis, 18G1, p. 358; E. Ninvton, Ibis, 1803, p. 346; Sclatm; P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 163 ; Ilartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 11 ; A. Newton, P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 8.34 ; ScJd. P. Z.'S. 1806, p. 422 ; Grand. Per. et Mog. de 



Zool. 1867, p. 357 ; Schl. S,- Poll. Faun. Madaq., Ois. p. 17, pi. 19. 



fiS'. 1 (1868) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2133 (1869) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 390 : id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 36 (1871) ; Ilartl. Voff. 



Madaq. p. 102 (1877) ; Grand, i'n Milne- Edivards Sf Grand. H. N. 



Maddfj., Ois. pi. 113. fig-. 2 (1882). 



Adult. General colour above olive-yellow, a very little lighter on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts ashy brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow like tho back ; bastard- wing feathers blackish ; 

 primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with olive-yellow, a little 

 brighter on the primaries ; tail-feathers black, edged with ashy along 

 the inner webs ; crown of the head like the back ; lores paler, and 

 forming a small golden-yellow streak ; feathers round the eye sillcy 

 white ; in front of the eye a black spot, extending a little backwards 

 below the eye ; ear-coverts olive-yellow ; checks and throat golden 

 yellow ; breast and abdomen white, with a slight yellow tinge ; fore 

 neck, chest, sides of the body, and flanks light ashy, with a slight 

 isabelline-brown tinge on the flanks ; thighs yellowish white at base, 

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

 coverts white, slightly washed with yellow ; edge of the wing brighter 

 yellow ; axillaries white ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills 

 white ; bill lead-colour, darker at tip ; tarsus lead-colour ; iris dark 

 brown. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*15, tail 1'55, 

 tarsus 0'6. 



Female like the male. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-2, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-65. 



Ohs. Z. machiffascciriensis and Z. capensls arc races belonging to 

 the Z. palpehrosa group. The present bird is much paler below than 

 Z. eapensis, being whitish down tlio centre of tho body, with very 

 light isabelliue-brown flanks ; the throat and under tail-coverts are 

 brighter yellow, and not of such a greenish j^eUow as in Z. eapensis. 



HclI). Madagascar and Glorioso Islands. 



n, b. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Ankafaua forest, March 3, Rev. W. Deans Cowan 



1881. [C.]. 



d. § ad. sk. Glorioso Island, May 1882 Voy. of II.M.S. 'Alert.' 



{Dr. Cojjjjinffer). 



25. Zosterops eapensis. 



Le Tcheric, Levaill. Ois. d\ifr. iii. pi. 1:)2 (1802, nee Buff)*; Sunder. 



Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 39 (1857). 

 ? Zosterops annulosa. Swains. Zool. III. iii. pi. 164. 

 ? Zosterops flavigula, Sicain^. An. in 3Ienag. p. 294 (1837). 

 Zosterops eapensis, Sxndev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fiirh. Stockholm, 



* Most unsatisfactoiy figure. 



