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coverts a little darker grey than the back ; bastard-wing feathers 

 blackish : primary-coverts blackish, narrowly edged with grey ; quills 

 blackish, externally bluish grey, more hoary on the primaries; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts white : tail-feathers blackish, slightly 

 washed with grey externally, internally edged with ashy ; crown of 

 the head like the back ; lores blackish, extending a little above and 

 below the eye ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; no ring of feathers 

 round the eye ; .ear-coverts bluish grey, with a slight brownish 

 tiuge ; cheeks, throat, and underparts white, slightly tinged with 

 ashy grey on the fore neck and breast ; sides of the body and flanks 

 washed with rusty ; thighs aud under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axtllaries white ; quills below blackish : inner edge 

 of qiiills whitish ; " bill and legs dull lead-colour, soles yellowish ; 

 iris bright hazel '' (E. Newton). Total length 3'8 inches, culmen 

 O'o, wing 2-2, taU 1*6, tarsus O'T. 



Female. Similar to the male, but a little paler. Total length 

 3*9 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-1, tail 1*6, tarsus 0"7. 



Youmj. Similar to the adults, but somewhat tinged with oliva- 

 ceous : rump aud upper tail-coverts yellowish white, as also the under 

 surface of the body ; sides of the body ashy, a little washed with 

 brown on the flanks. 



Hah. Mauritius. 



a, b, c. Ad. sk. Mam-itius. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



69. Zosterops borbonica. 



Le Figuier de I'isle de Bom-bon, Bn'ss. Orn. iii. p. 510, pi. 28. fig. 3 



(1700)* ; D Anient. PL Enl vi. pi. 705. fig. 2. 

 Le Petit Simon, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 260. 

 Le Soui-manga de I'isle de Bourbon, Bujf. t. c. p. 516. 

 Grimpereau de I'isle de Bourbon, D'^kwiewf. H. Enl. vi. pi. 681. fig. 2 



(? av. juv.). 

 Yellow-riuuped Creeper, Lath. Gen. Syn. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 736 (1781). 

 Bombou "Warbler, Lath. Gen. S>/n. vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 475 (1783). 

 Motacillu borbouica, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 981 (1788). 

 Zosterops borbonica, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (1848); Blijth, Cat. B. 



Mtis. As. Soc. p. 220 (1849) ; Bjk Consp.i. p. 399 (1850) ; Reickenb. 



Hundh., Merop. p. 91, pi. 460. fig. 3290 (c. 1852) ; Heugl. Ibis, 



18C)1, p. 360; Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 27; Scklegel, P. Z. ft. 18(J6, 



p. 422; id. ^- Poll. Faune Madag., Ois. p. 74, pi. 19. fig. 6 (1868, pt.) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 164, no. 2167 (1869) ; Hartl. Vog. Madag. 



p. 95(1877). 

 Malacirojw borbonica, Bp. Comptes Bendus, xxxviii. p. 264(1854). 

 Zosterops E. newtoni, Hartl. Vog. Madag. p. 97 (1877). 



Adult. General colour above dark slaty grey ; wing-coverts like 

 the back : bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, the latter 

 narrowly edged with slaty ; quills dusky brown, edged with slaty 

 grey, a little more hoary on the primaries ; rump aud upper tail- 



* Description somewbat uusatisfnctory, the characteristic white rump not 

 being luentioiied or depicted in the figure. 



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