1. ZOSTEROPS. 199 



narrow olive-green edges ; quills dusky, externally margined with 

 dull olive-yellow ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with olive-green ; 

 crown of head sooty black, washed with olive-green ; lores black, as 

 also a patch of feathers below the eye and the fore part of the 

 cheeks : ring round the eye silky white ; ear-coverts olive-green ; 

 cheeks and throat dull olive-yellow ; fore neck and breast ashy grey ; 

 abdomen whiter ; sides of body and flanks ashy grey ; thighs white, 

 externally ashy ; under tail-coverts ashy whitish ; imder wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white, the lower series ashy ; quills below 

 dusky : inuer edge of quills whitish ; " bill corneous ; lower man- 

 dible whitish ; legs and feet pale greenish brown ; iris yellow or 

 brown drab "' (Layard). Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wiug 2-35, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7o. 

 Hub. Loyalty Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Loyalty Islands. Sir George Grey [P.j. 



(Type of species.) 



76. Zosterops lugubris. 



Zosterops lugubris, Rartl Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 109 ; id. Beitr. Om. 

 W.-Afr. p. 23 (1848); id. Ahhandl. not. Ver. Hamhury, ii. p. 49, 



pi. 2. fig. infer. (184S) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 198 (184S) ; B2). 



Co}isp. i. p. 398 (1850); Hartl. Om. W.-Afr. p. 72 (1857); 



Jleuc/l. Ibis, 1861, p. 361 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. "i. p. 164, no. 2710 



(1869). 

 Speirops lugubris, Eeichenh. Handb., Merop. p. 93, pi. 462. fig. 3306 



(c. 1852) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 564. 



A'luU male. General colour above duU olive-green, the mantle 

 and sides of the neck more ashy ; lesser wing-coverts and median 

 coverts olive-green ; greater coverts dusky, externally olive-green 

 like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky blackish ; 

 quills dusky, externally olive-green like the back ; upper tail- 

 coverts a little clearer olive than the back ; tail-feathers dusky, 

 edged with olive-green ; crown of head blackish ; base of forehead 

 olive-yellow ; nape and hind neck olive-green like the back ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye white ; car-coverts pale olive, with 

 whitish shaft-streaks : sides of hinder crown ashy grey ; cheeks and 

 throat ashy grey, sUghtly tinged with olive ; breast and abdomen 

 ashy olive, greyer on the flanks ; thighs white ; under tail-coverts 

 deep olive with a fulvous tinge ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries 

 pure white ; quills ashy brown below ; inner edges of quills white. 

 Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0"o.5, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, tarsus 

 0-8.5. 



Hah. AVest Africa : Island of S. Thomas in the Bight of Benin. 



a. (S ad. sk. S. Thomas. J. .1. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



