190 MELIPHAGIDJ?:. 



webs of the quills, except at the tijDS, white ; all the under surface 

 yellow, brightest on the throat ; abdomeu and under tail-coverts 

 slightly tinged with greenish yellow on the sides and Hanks ; lores 

 ycUow ; narrow ring round the eye white ; bill yellow^, tinged with 

 brownish at the tip ; feet olive-grey. Total length 4 inches, wing 

 2-.J, tail 1'45, tarsus (>7, bill from forehead U"7, from gape O'To, 

 from nasal groove to tip 0'4. {Eamsay.) 

 Hah. Heath Island. 



59. Zosterops brunneicauda. 



Adult. Above yellowish green, conspicuously yellowish; under 

 surface of body deep yellow, the sides of the body greenish ; eye-ring 

 snow-white, below surrounded by dusky black ; quills and tail-feathers 

 brown, margined with the same colour as the back ; under wing- 

 Goverts and inner edge of quills whitish yellow ; bill dusky, the 

 lower mandible paler at the base ; feet apparently lead-colour. 

 Total length 4-75 inches, wing 2-45, tail 1"G5, bill 0-5, tarsus 0'65. 

 iSalvadori.) 



Hah. Islands of C'eram Laut, Choor, and the Aru Islands ; 

 ? Mysol. 



60. Zosterops uropygialis. 



Zosterops m'opvgialis, Salvud. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 78 

 (1874), xiv. p. 65.3 (1879), xvi. p. 82 (1880); id. Oni. Papuasia 

 etc. ii. p. 373 (1881). 



Adidt. Above yellowish green, the head tinged with dusky, the 

 rump yellower ; entire under surface ycUow, the under tail-coverts 

 and throat brighter ; quills and tail-feathers duskj', margined with 

 the same colour as the back, the former margined internally with 

 yellowish white ; under wing-coverts mixed j'ellow and ashy ; biU 

 dusky ; feet lead-colour. Total length 4*4 inches, wing 2-5, tail 

 1'8, bill 0'5, tarsus 0"65. (Salvadori.) 



Hah. Little Ke Island, Moluccas. 



01. Zosterops semiflava. 



Zosterops semiflava, K Newton, Ibis, 1867, pp. 354, 359; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 163, no. 2160 (1869) ; Hartl. VlUj. Madag. p. 104 

 (1877) ; Oustalet, Bidl. Soc. Philom. 1878, p. 170. 



Adult. General colour above clear olive-yellow, clearer yellow on 

 the upper tail-coverts, with a reddish-brown shade on the lower 



* Count Salvadori has changed the name of rvfifrons, as the rufous forehead 

 of the type specimen was found to be due to a blood-stain. 



