178 MELIPHAOID^. 



base of the outer webs, the inner webs edged with ashy whitish ; 

 lores and forehead blackish brown, with a line of the same extending 

 below the eye ; ring of feathers round the eye silky white : ear- 

 coverts olive-yellow ; cheeks and throat bright golden yellow ; fore 

 neck and chest delicate ashy : centre of the breast, abdomen, sides 

 of the body, and flanks whiter, the latter with a very faint shade of 

 ashy ; thighs yellow, white at the base and dusky behind ; under 

 tail-coverts golden yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 

 washed with yellow ; edge of wing bright yellow ; (juills below dusky 

 brown ; inner edge of quills whitish. Total length 4 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-3, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-6. (Mus. H. B. Tristram.) 

 Hah. Arfak Mountains, N.W. New Guinea. 



36. Zosterops fuscicapilla. 



Zosterops fuscicapilla. SalvacL Ann. 3Ivs. Civ. Genov. vii. p. 955 

 (1875); Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1877 ; Sahacl.Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Getiov. xvi. p. 82 (1880); id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 372 (1881). 



Adult female. General colour above olive-green, a little yellower 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts a little yellower on their edges ; bastard- 

 wing feathers and primary-coverts ))laek, the latter with slight 

 margins of olive-green near the tip ; quiUs black, narrowly edged with 

 olive-green, yellower on the primaries ; tail-feathers black, narrowly 

 fringed with whitish along the inner webs ; crown of head black ; occi- 

 put, nape, and hind neck olive-green like the back ; lores black; round 

 the eye a ring of silky white ; in front of the eye the feathers 

 blackish, as also a streak below the latter ; ear-coverts dull olive- 

 green, as also the hinder part of the cheeks ; sides of neck olive- 

 green ; throat and under surface of the body brighter j-ellow, olive- 

 greenish on the sides of the body and flanks ; thighs and under 

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

 slightly washed with yellow ; qiulls below dusky ; inner edge of 

 quills whitish. Total length 3*7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-25, 

 tail 1-45, tarsus -62. 



Hab. Arfak Mountaias, N.W. New Guinea. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Atam, Arfak Mountains. Mr. Bruijn [C.]. 



37. Zosterops hypoxantha. 



Zosterops hypoxantha, Salvad. Atti It. Accad. Torino, xvi. p. G23 

 (1881) ; id. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xviii. p. 425 (1882). 



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

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts ashy brown, edged with olive-yellow ; 

 bastard-wing feathers dusky; primary-coverts and quills dusky 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow, brighter 07i the primaries ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow ; crown of the head 

 blackish, with faintly indicated paler shaft-streaks ; occiput and nape 

 dull olive-vellow, as well as the sides of the hinder crown ; lores 



