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eyes, consisting of three or four rows of silky-white feathers ; lores 

 black ; quills greyish black, with yellowish-green edges ; tail black. 

 Total length 4-75 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 1-75, tarsus 

 0-7. 



Hnh. Foot of ^laeru Mountain, Massai country, East Africa. 



From this short description it is not possible to insert the species 

 in the " Key." 



Page 190. Zosterops brunneicauda. 

 Add : — 



a. Ad. sk. Choor {von Rosenberg.). Leiden Museum [P.]- 



Page 190. Zosterops nropygialis. 

 Add: — 



a. Ad. sk. Little Kt5 Island (von Rosenberg). Leiden Museum [P.]. 

 (EDISTOMA. 



Type. 

 CEdistoma, Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. \i\. 

 p. 952 (1875) O. pygmffium. 



Allied to Melilestes, but with the bill small, slender and sharp, 

 equalling the length of the head ; culmen rather curved, the edges 

 of the mandibles swollen near the angle of the mouth ; wings 

 rounded; tail small; tarsi moderate. (Snlvadori.) 



1. (Edistoma pygmaeum. 



CEdistoma pygmseum, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 952 

 (1875), xvi. p. 74 (1880) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. ii. p. 312. 



Above olivaceous, the sides of the head greyish olive ; fore neck 

 whitish grey ; upper part of breast tinged with greyish olive ; centre 

 of the abdomen and under tail-coverts pale olive-yellow; lateral 

 plumes dense, pale yellow in colour ; wings and taU dusky, with 

 olivaceous edges to the feathers ; quills margined with whitish 

 internally ; under wing-coverts whitish yellow ; bill dusky, white 

 at the lower base of the under mandible ; feet leaden grey. Total 

 length about '6-1 inches, culmen 0-G, wing 1-75-1-S5, tail 0-8-0-9, 

 tarsus 0"55. 



Hah. N.AV. New Guinea. 



Count Salvadori has placed this genus between his genera Glyci- 

 cJicera (Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 310) and Melilestes (t. c. p. 312). Not 

 having seen a specimen, I have not been able to place it systemati- 

 cally, but it probably comes near Glyciphila. 



