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cated loral streak of brighter yellow ; ear-coverts and sides of face 

 a little more dingy oliTe-yellow than the crown ; cheeks and throat 

 bright yellow ; fore neck, breast, and entire sides of body light ashy 

 grey : centre of breast and abdomen whitish ; thighs whitish, washed 

 with yellow; under tail-coverts yellow; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, washed vvith yellow, the edge of the wing bright 

 yellow ; quills dusky below, whitish along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " up]ier mandible pale homy, lower mandible jjale horn-colour ; iris 

 reddish brown" (//. 0. Forhes). Total length 4-5 inches, culmeu 

 O'Go, wing 2-30, tail 1'75, tarsus 0*75. 



Adult female. Like the male in colour, but deeper ashy on the 

 flanks. Total length 4*7 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-5, tail 1-75, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. It will be noticed that the female is larger than the male 

 described. The flanks and sides of the body are decidedly greyer 

 and have not the slight isabelline tint which distinguishes the males 

 from Moloe and Loetoer, It may be that in Larat the species is 

 slightly modified. 



Hab. Tenimber Islands. 



a. S ad. sk. Loetoer, Timor Laut, Sept. Brit. Assoc. Comm. [P.]. 



1882 {H. O. Forbes). (Tjl^e of species.) 



b. (S ad.sk. Moloe Island, Sept. 1882 Brit. Assoc. Comm. [P.]. 



(H. O. Forbes). 



c. $ ad. sk. Laiat,A\ig.l5{I£.0. Forbes). Brit. Assoc. Comm. [P.]. 



80. Zosterops novae gninese. 



Zosterops sp., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 954 (1875). 

 Zosterops novse guinese, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 341 

 (1878), xvi. p. 81 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. p. 367 (1881). 



Adult male (Arfak Mountains ; Bmijn). General colour above 

 uniform dull olive-yellow, very little brighter on the rump and 

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

 yellow on the edges of the median and greater coverts; bastard- 

 wing feathers and primary-coverts blackish, the latter slightly 

 edged with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers blackish, sliglitly margined 

 with olive-yellow ; crown of the head like the back ; lores not per- 

 cei)tibly lighter than the head ; in front of the eye a dusky spot, 

 extending backwards below the eye ; ring of feathers round the 

 eye silky white ; ear-coverts dull olive-yellow ; cheeks and throat 

 bi-ighter yellow ; fore neck, sides of the body, and flanks dull ashy, 

 with a slight isabelline tinge on the flanks ; breast and abdomen 

 whiter ; thighs yellow, white at base ; under tail-coverts golden 

 yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with 

 yeUow ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills ashj' whitish. 

 Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-2, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-7. 

 (Mus. H. B. Tristram.) 



Hah. Xew Guinea and Aru Islands ; Amboina and Ceram. 



a. Ad.sk. Aru Islands (J. T. CwAwW/). F.D.Godman and 0. Salvia, 



Esqrs. 



