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massing, collected by Motley, this locality not being given 

 by Count Salvadori in the ' Uccelli di Borneo/ 



ZOSTEROPS BUXTONI, n. Sp. 



Zosterops lateralis, Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 15 (nee Sundev., 

 nee Lath.). 



Two specimens, agreeing with Dr. Hartlaub^s description 

 (/. c.) . It would appear that the name lateralis has been given 

 three separate times to a Zosterops. The bird which should 

 really stand as Z. lateralis is the New-Zealand species {of. 

 Buller, B. N. Zealand, p. 80; Finsch, J. f. O. 1 872, p. 108) . In 

 1850 the late Professor Sundevall described a second Z. late- 

 ralis from South Africa; and this was renamed by Dr. Hartlaub 

 (J. f. 0. 1865, p. 8) Z. sundevalli ; and in the same paper the 

 latter author described Z. lateralis of Temminck (MS. in Mus. 

 Lugd.) — apparently for the first time, as I find no mention of 

 the bird in Bonaparte^s ' Conspectus.' Dr. Hartlaub remarks 

 that SundevalFs name lateralis should give place to Tem- 

 minck^s, which was given earlier ; but this would hardly be 

 the case, as SundevalFs species was properly described, while 

 Temminck's name would seem to depend merely on a MS. 

 title in the Leyden Museum. It is certain, however, that 

 both these names are preoccupied by the Sylvia lateralis of 

 Latham ; and as the Javan species appears to be without a 

 specific title, I would propose to call it after Mr. Buxton, 

 whose zeal in the cause of science was well known to my 

 readers, and who met with his death on the Niger in August 

 last, where he had gone for the purpose of collecting. 



Dendrophila frontalis. 



Dendrophila frontalis (Horsf.), Salvad. t. c. p. 161; Sharpe, 

 Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 436- 

 Three specimens. 



Parus atriceps. 



Pariis atriceps, Horsf. ; Tvveedd. t. c. p. 304. 



A considerable series. 



iEoiTHINA scapula RIS. 



Mgithina scapularis (llorsf.), Tweedd. /. c. n. 30 i. 



