1. Z0STER0P8. 187 



52. Zosterops oleagina. 

 Zosterops oleagina, Hartl. Sj- Finsch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 95. 



General colour a deep oil-green, with a decided fulvous hue; 

 underparts a little paler and a little more yellowish ; eye-ring satin- 

 white; ears blackish; upper and under tail-coverts with a slight 

 rufous tinge; mng- and tail-feathers blackish, with oil-green 

 margins ; under wing-coverts whitish grey ; beak fulvous, under 

 mandible, except at the tip, yellowish : feet pale, probably yellow ; 

 iris reddish white. Total length about 4" 7'", bill from front 6^'", 

 wing 2" 7'", tail 1" 8'", tarsus 10'". {Ilarflaub and Finsch.) 



Hah. Uap, in the Mackenzie group of islands. 



53. Zosterops conspicillata. 



Dicfeum conspicillatum, Kittl. Kupf. Viig. pi. 19. fig. 1 (1832) • id 



Mem. Acad. St. Pctcrsh. ii. pi. 4 (1835). 

 Zosterops conspiciHata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848^ ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 398 (18."jO) ; Beichcnb. Handh., Merop. p. 92, pl.'4Gl. fig. 3295 



(c. 1852); Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. IG (1859); 



id. Iland-l. B. i. p. 1G3, no. 2141 (1869). 



Bill horn-grey ; feet flesh-colour ; iris dark brown ; feathers of 

 the upper surface greyish olive-green, on the abdomen somewhat 

 dingy yellow ; throat yellowish white : on the fore part of the fore- 

 head a white cross band, which is lengthened into a Zosterops-like 

 eye-ring ; wing and tail-feathers dark brown, with greenish-yellow 

 edging. (KittlHz.) 



Hub. Island of Guam, Ladrones. 



54. Zosterops flavifrons. 



Yellow-fronted Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 342 {e.v Forster, 



Icon, iiied.). 

 Muscicapa flavifrons, Latli. Ind. Orn. i. p. 479 (1790). 

 Muscicapa heteroclita, Forster, Icon. ined. no. 158 ; id. Bescr. Anim 



p. 271 (1844). 

 Zosterops flavifrons, Graij, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 15 



(1859); Ilarfl. J. f. O. 18G5, p. 23 ; Gray, IIand-1. B. i. p. ]52, 



no. 2110 (1869) ; id. in Brenchley's Cruise of'Cura(;oa,'' p. 366, pi. 7. 



fig. 1 (1873) ; Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 140 ; Trii^tr. t. c. p. 262 ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1878, pp. 270, 280. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, a little brighter 

 on the rump and upper tail -coverts ; lessor wing-coverts olive- 

 yellow ; median and greater coverts dusky ashy, edged with oiive- 

 yellow ; bastard-wing feathers blackish ; primary-coverts like the 

 greater series ; quills dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow, a little 

 brighter on the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky ash-brown, edged with 

 olivo-ycllow. M-hitish along the edge of the inner web : crown of 

 head like the back ; lores and base of the forehead golden yellow, 



