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Gl hub— ZOSTEROPS. —First primary extremely short or wanting (except 

 in the brow d Bpecies). 



301. Z. CCeruleSCens, Lath, (includes Z. westernensis, Quoy and Gaim. j 

 North), Silver eye. 



Crown olive-green; back brown; under surface not uniform; 

 throat white, Bometimes tinged with olive. 

 Eab. : 2, :;. », 5, 6, 7 



:>0 , _ > . Z. ramsavi. Blasters, fellow-vented Silver-eye. 



Crown of head, seek, throat, wings, rump, and under tail coverts 

 ni>li \ flli «w : Lores and line beneath eye black ; back ami chest 

 bluish-grej ; abdomen Light-grey, passing into buff on flanks; 

 primaries and secondaries brownish-black, margined on outer webs 

 with yellowish beneath, «>n inner webs with whitish; tail brown, 

 margined with yellow. 

 H. (iadou considers it may be identical with Z. westernensis. 

 Hah. : 2 (7). 



.SOS. Z. gouldi. Bparte., Green-backed silver eye. 



Head and rump of same tint as hark, though Bometimes brighter; 

 throat olive-yellow : breast ashy-grey ; Bides of body clear rufous or 

 pale chestnut. 

 Hah : 0. 



304. Z. all>iv<*llter, Reicheuhach (includes /. flavogularis, Masters), 



Pale-bellied Sil\ er-eye. 



Head and rump of same tint as back, though >■ mutinies brighter ; 

 throat Bulphur-yellow ; breast pale ashy ; Bides of hotly pale ashy- 

 grey ; under tail coverts sulphur-yellow. 

 Hah. : 1. 2. 



305. Z. lutea, Old., Yellow Silver-eye. 



Throat \ ellow, like rest of under surface ; colour above grass-green. 

 Bill, 05 in. 



Hah. : 1,2. 



306. Z. Jilillix'ri. Castelnau and Ramsay, Gulliver Silvei 



Colour above olive-yellow; throat yellow, like rest of under sur- 

 face Bill uearly 0*6 in. 



Hah. : 1. 



GBN1 - MELTTHREPTUS. Bill shorter than rest of head; operculum 

 partly covered with feathers: first primary about third length of 

 \.-r\ l.ai- second primary : tip of wing formed by third, fourth, and 

 fifth; secondaries very Bhort, two-thirds Length of wing; tail 

 slightly emarginate. 



307. II. luiiiilatiis. shaw (British Museum Catalogue includes M. 



chloropsis, Gld.), Lunulated Boney-eater. 



Crown of head black; whit, band across occiput: chin pure 

 white; under surface white ; naked space abo^ rlet; wing, 



2*8 m. to ::-i in. 

 Hah. : :;. I 



308. HI. albimilaris. Old. (sub-sp. of M. Lunulatus), White-throated 



Bone) ■ it- 1 



\Yiii_-, •_' »; in. to 2*8 in. 



Hal,. : I. -J. :;, 8. 



809. m. chloropsis, Gld. 



Similar to Lunulato and naked sp use above eye greenish* 



w bite. 



Hah. : !». 



