1. Z0STEROP8. 203 



Young. With the head scarcely spotted at all. (Eartlaub.) 

 Hah. Island of Timor. 



a. Ad. sk. Timor. Purchased, 



84. Zosterops frigida. 



Zosterops frigida, Miill. MS. in Mus. Lugd., undk 



Heleia trigida, Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 27. 



Zosterops frigida, Gray,^Hand-l. B. i. p. 164, no. 2175 (1869). 



Of small size ; upper surface brownish oHvaceous ; ground-colour 

 of crown dull yello\vish, longitudinally spotted with blackish ; tore- 

 head yellow, with an orange tinge ; ring of feathers round the eye 

 not very conspicuous ; throat dull yellowish ; breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts dull yellowish ; an obscure moustachial streak • 

 under wing-coverts pale isabeUine; wings and tail uuiform with 

 the l)ack ; bill pale brown, paler at the tip and base of under man- 

 dible; feet pale. Total length 4", bill from forehead 4'" win* 

 I" 9i'", tail 1" 7'", tarsus 7i"'. {Hartlaiib.) " 



Hah. Sumatra. 



85. Zosterops ficedulina. 



Zosterops ficeduHna, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 327 : Gran. Hand-l B 

 i. p. 162, no. 2127 (1869). ^ ' ' 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, a little brighter and 

 more yellowish green on the rump ; the lesser wing-coverts and the 

 median coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky, edged with 

 the same colour as the back; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 dusky brown, very narrowly edged with green ; quiUs dusky brown, 

 externally edged with olive-green ; upper tail-coverts rather more 

 dingy olive-green ; tail-feathers dusky, with olive-green edges, the 

 two outer feathers with a small longitudinal spot of white at' the 

 tips ; crown of head a little more dusky than the back, and washed 

 with olive-green, the forehead with small and narrow streaks of 

 white ; lores pale yellow ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts light dusky 

 olive, with an ashy shade above them on the sides of the hinder 

 crown ; cheeks and the under surface of the body pale yellow, a 

 little brighter yellow on the fore neck, breast, and abdomen ; flanks 

 with a slight fulvescent tinge ; thighs yellowish white ; under tail- 

 coverts decidedly brighter yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 whitish, washed with pale yellow ; quills below brown ; inner edge 

 of quills whitish. Total length 4-5 inches, culmcn 0-45, wing 2, 

 tail I'oo, tarsus 0"(>5. 



Hah. Prince's Island, in the Bight of Benin, West Africa. 



«■ Ad. sk. Prince's Island. Dr. Dohm [C.T 



