180 MELIPHAGIDJE. 



a. Ad. sk. Java {Horsfield). India Museum. (Type of 



species.) 

 6, c. Ad. sk. Banjermassing. J. Motley, Esq. [C.]. 



39. Zosterops meyeni. 



Dictum flavum {nee Horsf.), Eittl. Kupf. Y6g. pi. 19. fig. 2 (1832) ; 



id. Mem. Acad. S. Peteisb. 18.35, pi. 3. 

 Svlvia flava, Meyen, Acta Acad. Cces.-Leop. Nat. Cur. xvi., Suppl. 



■p. 203(1834). 

 Zosterops sp., Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848). 

 Zosterops meyeui, Bp. Comp. i. p. 398 (1850) ; Reichenb. Handb., 



Merop. p. 9i,pl. 461. fig. 3294 (c. 1852) ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 18G5, p. 16 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2123 (1869) ; Walden, Trans. Z. S. 



ix. p. 199 (1877). 



Similar to Z. jiava, but a little greener, and not having the rump 

 conspicuously brighter yellow ; the tail also greener. Total length 

 3-9 inches, culmen 0-4.5, wing 1-7, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'6. 



Hah, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Manila, Luzon. Gould Collection. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



40. Zosterops siamensis. 



Zosterops siamensis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 34 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 162, no. 2120 (^1869) ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, p. 350, pi. 10. fig. 1 ; 



Hitme ^-Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 375 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104 ; 



Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 343 (1883). 

 Zosterops palpebrosa {nee T.), Tickell MSS., teste Walden, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 350. 

 Zosterops austeni, Walden, in Blyth B. Bui-m. p. Ill (1875) ; Hume 



I- Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 376 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 104. 



Adult male. General colour olive-yellow, a little duller on the 

 mantle, back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts ; median and 

 greater coverts dusky, margined with deeper olive-yellow, somewhat 

 orange in tint; bastard- wing and primary-coverts dusky, the foimer 

 tipped, the latter edged, with olive-yellow ; quiUs dusky brown, 

 externally edged with olive-ycIlow, the inner secondaries entirely dull 

 olive-yellow ; rump and upper tail-coverts brighter olive-yellow than 

 the back ; tail-feathers dusky, externally margined with dull olive- 

 yellow, and with whitish along the inner web ; crown of head, nape, 

 and hind neck a little richer olive-yeUow than the back ; lores and 

 base of forehead much brighter yeUow ; ring of feathers round eye 

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

 narrow line below the eye ; ear-coverts olive-yellow ; checks, throat, 

 fore neck, and breast golden yellow ; abdomen a little paler ; sides 

 of body and flanks slightly tinged with olive, the latter with a con- 

 cealed' patch of silky white, caused by the bases of the lateral 

 feathers ; thighs and luider tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale yellow, with whitish bases ; quills below 

 duskv ; inner edge of quills ashy whitish ; "upper mandible and 

 lower mandible from tip to angle of gonys black, rest of lower 



