192 MELIPHAGIDiE. 



cheeks, throat, and fore neck golden yellow ; breast and abdomen a 

 little paler golden yellow ; sides of the body and tlauks with some- 

 what of a ruddy tinge ; thighs pale yellow, olive behind ; under 

 tail-coverta bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillarios pale 

 yellow, white at base ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills 

 ashy whitish ; " bill black ; legs dirty slate-blue : iris ])ale grey " 

 (//. 0. Forbes). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, tail 

 1*55, tarsus 0'(35. 



Female. Like the male, but a little greener. Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-35, tail 1-65, tarsus 0'65. 



Hab. Sumatra. 



a. Q ad. sk. Moimt Dempo, Sumatra, 8000 feet, F. Nicholson, Esq. 

 May 1, 1881 (7/. O. Forbes). [P.]. 



64. Zosterops minuta. 



Zosterops minuta, F. L. S/- L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 259 ; Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 186, pi. iv. fig. 1 ; E. L. iy L. C. Layard, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 225. 



Male. General colour above dull olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts ashy, externally olive- 

 yellow ; bastard-wing feathers dusky brown ; primary- coverts and 

 quills dusky brown, externally olive-yeUow, a little brighter on the 

 primaries ; rump and upper tail-coverts a shade lighter yellow than 

 the back ; tail-feathers dusky, externally olive-yellow ; crown of 

 head like the back, with obsolete pale-yellow shaft-lines to the 

 feathers ; lores and base of forehead bright sulphur-yellow ; feathers 

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

 in a line below the eye ; ear-coverts olive-yellow ; cheeks, throat, 

 fore neck, and breast sulphur-yellow ; abdomen whiter, washed with 

 yellow ; sides of body and flanks washed with isabellino brown, 

 with a large tuft of silky-white plumes on the latter ; thighs yellow, 

 externally dusky ; under tail-coverts bright olive-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with yellow ; quills below 

 dusky ; inner edge of quills white ; " bill corneous; legs blue-brown ; 

 iris drab" {Layard). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-1, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 2-05, tail 1-55, tarsus 0*7 . 



Hab. Lifii, Loyalty Islands. 



a,b.(S2 ad. sk. Lifa, Aug. 1878. E. L. Layard, Esq. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Lifu, Sept. 2, 1878. E. L. Layard, Esq. 



C.]. 



C.I. 



d. Ad. sk. Lifu. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C. 



65. Zosterops olivacea. 



Le Grimpereau olive de Madagascar, Briss. Orn. iii. p. G25 (1760). 



Certhia ohvacea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 185 (1707). 



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