1. Z0STER0P8. 197 



71. Zost crops fallax. 



Zosterops monticola, Temm. in Mas. Liu/d. {descr. mdld). 



Zosterops inontana, Midi, in Mus. Lucjd. (nee Bp.). 



Zosterops javauica {nee Horsf.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 115 (1850J , 



Graxj, Hand-IB. i. p. 104, no. 2172 (1869). 

 Zosterops frontalis, Briehenh. Handb., Merop. p. 92, pi. 463. fig. 3367 



(c. 1852). 

 ? Phylloscopus javanicus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 393 (1841) ; 



id'. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 185 (1849). 

 Oreosterops javanica, Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 26. 

 Oreosterops montaua, Bp. C. R, xxxviii. p. 264 (1854) ; ISundev. Av. 



Meth. Tent. p. 27 (1872). 



Adult male. General colour above dull green, a little yellower on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts green like the back ; 

 median and greater coverts dusky, externally edged with yellowish 

 green; bastard-wing feathers dusky; primary-coverts and quiUs dusky, 

 externally edged with yellowish green ; secondaries like the back ; 

 tail-feathers dusky, with green edges to outer webs and ashy-brown 

 edges to inner webs; crown of head and nape ashy grey, with foi'ehead 

 and lores ashy white, forming a frontal patch ; in front of the eye a 

 dusky spot ; round the eye a narrow ring of white feathers ; ear- 

 coverts ashy grey like the crown ; fore part of cheeks dull whitish, 

 hinder part ashy grey, with while shaft-lines ; chin dull white, as 

 well as the upper throat ; lower throat didl ashy grey, slightly washed 

 with yellow ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen pale yellow ; sides of body 

 and Hanks a little greener ; thighs pale yellow, externally greenish ; 

 under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts white, slightly 

 washed with yellow ; axillaries pale suiphur-jeUow ; quills below 

 dusky ; inner edge of quills yellowish white. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmcn O-oo, wing 2-5, tail 1-9, tarsus 0"7. 



Female. Like the male in colour. Total length 4-9 inches, 

 culmcn U'55, wing 2*4, tail I'S, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Java and Sumatra. 



Zoological Society. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.J. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



72. Zosterops flnscMi. 



Tephras finschii, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 6, 117, pi. 3. 

 Zosterops finschii, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 164, no. 2173 (1869); 

 Hartl. Sf Finseh, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 96. 



Adult, (icneral colour above uniform ruddy brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back ; bastard- wing feathers a little more dusky ; priraar)'- 

 coverts and cjuills brown, externally like the back ; inner secondaries 

 entirely of the latter colour ; tail-feathers brown, edged with lighter 

 brown like the back ; crown of the head a little more dingy lirown 

 than the back ; lores a little more duskv ; car-coverts brown like 



