174 MELIPHAGID-E. 



throat greener as a rule than the male, aud appears to have the eye 

 reddish at times. {Legge.) 

 Hub. Hills of Cej-lou. 



a. Ad. sk. Nuwara Eliva, Cevlou. E. W. H. Holdswurtb, 



Esq. fP.]- 



6. cJ ad. sk. Dimboola, Nov. 15, 1870. Capt. W. \incent 



Legge [P.]. 



28. Zosterops xanthochroa. 



Zosterops xaiithochroa, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1859, p. IGl ; id. Cat. B. 

 Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 16 (1859) ; Ven: Eev. et Muq. de 

 Zool. 1860, p. 435; JIartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 25; Grat/, Hand'-l. B. 

 i. p. 162, no. 2114 (1860) ; Marie, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, 

 xxvii. p. 327 (1870) ; Gray, in Brenchlq/'s Cruise ' Curaqoa,' p. 366, 

 pi. 7. iig. 2 (1873) ; K L. §- L. C. Laijard, Ibis, 1878, p. 259. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above grass-green ; 

 ■wing- CO verts like the back; bastard-'sving feathers black; primarj-- 

 coverts dusky, externally grass-green ; quills dusky, edged with grass- 

 green, yellower on primaries, inclining to ashy whitish towards the 

 ends of the latter ; tail-feathers light brown, edged with grass- 

 green ; lores paler yellow, forming a short streak ; feathers round 

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

 narrow line below the eye ; ear-coverts and cheeks grass-green ; 

 throat and fore neck bright yellow ; breast pale ashy ; abdomen 

 white ; the middle of the breast washed with yellow ; sides of body 

 and flanks isabeUine brown ; thighs pale yellow, white at base, ex- 

 ternally ashy green ; under tail-coverts pale sulphur-yeUow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, edge of wing bright yellow ; 

 quills below dusky ; inner edge of quiUs white. Total length 4-3 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 1*8, tarsus 0-75. 



Female. Like the male, but a little paler. Total length 4*6 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2*4, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Eah. Kew Caledonia. 



a. 6 ad. sk. Nu, Port de France, New J. MacgiUivray, Esq. [C.]. 



Caledonia. (Type of species.) 



&. (J ad. sk. Port de France. JidiusBrenchley,Esq. [P.]. 



c. $ ad. sk. Isle of Pines, Sept. 25, Gould Collection. 



1853 {J. MacgiUivray). 



29. Zosterops griseiventer. 



Zosterops giiseiventris, Sclater, P. Z. S. 18S3, p. 199. 



Adult mcde (type of species). General colour above clear olive- 

 yeUow, a little duller on the head, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 win "--coverts like the back ; quills blackish brown, externally olive- 

 yellow like the back, the primaries narrowly edged with brighter 

 yellow ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged externally with olive- 

 yellow and internally with whitish ; forehead not perceptibly lighter 

 than the head ; a dusky spot in front of the eye extending a little 

 way backwards underneath ; above this dusky spot a slightly indi- 



