194 MELIPHAGID^. 



spot ; ring of feathers round the eye white ; ear-coverts and hinder 

 cheeks dark slaty grey ; chiu and fore part of cheeks whitish ; rest 

 of the throat and uuderparts ashy grey ; fore neck and abdomen a 

 little paler ; sides of the body and flanks tinged with pale rusty ; 

 thighs ashy grey : under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axiJlaries white ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of 

 quills whitish ; " bill black, base of lower mandible brown ; legs 

 reddisli brown ; iris light brown " {E. Sewton). Total length 

 4 inches, culmen 0'5f>, wing 2'15, tail 1'45, tarsus 0"65. 



Female. Like the male. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2-05, tail 1'3, tarsus 0*65. 



Hab. Mauritius. 



67. Zosterops modesta. 



Zosterops modesta, H. Newton, Ibis, 1867, pp. 345, S5i) ; Grat/, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 103, no. 2159 (1869) ; Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 98 

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



Adult. General colour above dingy olive-brown ; wing-coverts 

 dusky, edged with the same colour as the back ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts dusky bro^mi ; quills dusky, exteriially dull olive- 

 green, more hoary on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown ; crown of the head like the back ; lores 

 dusky blackish, surmounted by a line of yellowish white ; ring of 

 feathers round the eye silky white, with a narrow black line 

 underneath ; ear-coverts dull olive-brown ; cheeks olive-brown, 

 streaked with duU whitish centres ; chin whitish ; lower throat 

 and rest of the under surface light olivaceous ; abdomen a little 

 paler ; sides of the body and flanks rusty brown ; thighs ashy grey ; 

 Tinder tail-coverts yellowish white, with a very faint tinge of rusty ; 

 under wing-coverts and asillaries ashy white, washed with olive ; 

 quills below dusky ; inner edge of ciuills whitish ; " u^jper mandible 

 and extremity of lower mandible dark brown, the base of the latter 

 greyish ; legs, feet, and claws dusky lead-colour ; iris light brown " 

 {E. Newton). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-3, tail 

 1-45, tarsus 0"65. {Mus. A. Newton.) 



Hab. Seychelles. 



68. Zosterops inauritiana. 



Figuier bleu, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 282. 



Le Figuier de I'isle de France, UAribent. Fl. EnJ. 705. fig. 1. 



Maurice Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. v. pt. 2, p. 470 (1783). 



Motacilla mauritiana, Gm. Syst. Nat.\. p. 981 (1788). 



Zosterops cinerea, Stcai7)s. An. in Menug. p. 294 (1837, nee Kittl.). 



Zosterops borbouica, Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 40 (1861); Hmgl.IUs, 



1861, p. 360 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 27 ; &cJil. ^- Poll. Faun. 



Madag., Ois. p. 74, pi. 19. fig. 5 (pt., 1868); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 164, no. 2102 (1869). 

 Zosterops mauritia na, Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 96 (1877). 



Aduli male. General colour above delicate bluish grey; wing- 



