1. ZOSTEROPS. 193 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 162, no. 2128 (1869) ; Hartl. Voy. Madmj. 

 p. 101 (1877). 

 Zostei'ops olivacea, Hartl. Faun. Maday. p. 41 (1861) ; Gray, Hand-l, 

 B. i. p. 163, no. 2153 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above green, yellower on the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 ashy greyish ; greater coverts ashy, externally green ; bastard- wing 

 and primary-coverts blackish ; quiUs blackish, externally green, a 

 little yellower on the primaries ; tail-feathers ashy brown, with dull 

 green edges ; crown of the head blackish ; occiput, nape, and hind 

 neck green like the back ; lores black, as well as a streak below the 

 eye ; feathers round the eye silky white ; ear-coverts dark ashy 

 grey ; cheeks, sides of the neck, throat, chest, and breast lighter 

 ashy, whiter on the chin ; abdomen dull whitish ; sides of the body 

 and flanks pale isabelline or russet-brown ; thighs ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish ; 

 quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills ashy. Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen O'oo, wing 2-3, tail 1-7, tarsus 0'75. 



Huh. Island of Bourbon or Reunion. 



a. S ad. sk. Bom'bon, May 31, 1865. Messrs. Pollen and Van 



Dam [0.]. 

 h. Ad. sk. Bourbon. Purchased, 



c, d Ad. et juv. sk. Bom-bon. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



66. Zosterops chloronota. 



Le Soui-manga gi'is, Audeb. et Vieill. Ois. Dor. ii. pi. 28 (1802). 

 Dicjeum chloronothos, Vieill. Nouo. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ix. p. 408 



(1817). 

 Zosterops curvirostris, Sicains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 44 (descr. nulla) ; 



Blyfh, J. A. S. Beny. xiv. p. 563 {descr. oriy.) ; id. Cat. B. Mas, 



As. Soc. p. 220 (1849) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 164, no. 2165 



(1869). 

 Zosterops chloronotus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848) ; E. Newton, 



Ibis, 1801, p. 272 ; Heuyl. t. c. p. 359 ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1865, p. 12 ; 



Schlegel, P.Z.S. 1866, p. 422; A. Newton, liis, 1868, p. 225 : 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 164, no. 2168 (1869). 

 Cyclopterops chloronotus, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxviii. p. 264 



(1854). 

 Zosterops mauritanica, ScM. Sj- Poll, Faun. Maday., Ois. p. 74, pi. 19. 



fig. 4 (1868). 

 Zosterops chlorophtea, Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 99 (1877). 



Adult. General colour above slaty grey, inclining to dull olive on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median wing-coverts 

 slaty grey like the back ; greater coverts ashy, externally edged 

 with olive-ycUow ; bastard-wing blackish ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky, with olive-yellow margins, rather brighter yellow on 

 the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with dull olive-yellow, 

 and fringed with fulvous along the inner wob ; crown of the head 

 like the back ; lores black, surmounted by a very pale whity-brown 



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