1. ZOSTEBOPS. 189 



Zosterops gulliveri, Ramsay, Proc. Lmn. Soc. iV. S. W. ii. p. 191 



(1878). 



The general colour above is of a light ashy brown, darker on the 

 quills and tail, all the fc;tthers washed with pale olivc-yeUow, which 

 shows more conspicuously on the outer webs of the wing and tail- 

 feathers ; the forehead and throat of a little brighter yeEow ; lores 

 blackish, the whole of the uuder surface and the under wing- and 

 tail-coverts very pale citron, with a shght wash of buff on the 

 flanks : legs light grey ; bill dark lead-grey above, lower mandible 

 paler. Total length 4-2 inches, wing 2-25, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7, bill 

 from forehead 0-55. {Castehiau and Ramsay.) 



Hah. Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria. 



57. Zosterops griseitincta. 



Zosterops griseotincta, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 175 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 

 S)- Birds Netu Guin. p. 25 (1859) ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 434 ; 

 Finsc/i, Neu-Guinea, p. 1G4 (1865); Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 25 ; 

 Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 102, uo. 2112 j Sa/iml Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. xvi. p. 82 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 371 (1881). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above olive-greenish ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts ashy, 

 externally olive -greenish ; bastard-wing feathers blackish; primary- 

 coverts dusky, externally ashy grey ; quills dusky brown, margined 

 with ashy grey, tinged with olive-yellow, especially on some of the 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts olive-green ; tail-feathers light 

 dusky brown, edged with olive-green externally, and with a narrow 

 margin of white along the inner webs ; crown of head like the back, 

 with obscm-e pale shaft-lines ; the base of the forehead and lores 

 brighter yellow ; feathers round the eye silky white ; ear-coverts 

 olive-greenish ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of the body bright 

 sulphur-yellow ; sides of body and Hanks washed with ashy olive ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts pale yellow, the former externally 

 olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, washed with yel- 

 low ; the lower series of wing-coverts pale ashy; quills below 

 dusky, and inner edge of the quills whitish. Total length 4-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-G, wing 2-45, taU 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Hah. Louisiade Islands. 



a. (S ad. sk. Louisiade archipelago. J. Macgilli'iTay, Esq. [CI. 



5S. Zosterops long^ostris. 



Zosterops longirostris, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. A\ S. W. iii. p 288 

 (1879), iv. p. 100(1879); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoa, xvi. 

 p. 82 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 372 (IbSl). 



Adult male. All the upper surface greenish yellow ; win"3 and 

 tail dark brown, outwardly margined with greenish yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts white, tinged with yellow on the shoulders ; inner 



