360 H. Th. von Heuglin on a neiv African Zosterops. 



Bourbon (Leclancher). Two specimens in the Paris collec- 

 tion. A very large species. 



8. Z. sENEGALENSis, Bonap. 



Supra Isete virescenti-flava^ subtus pure et dilute flava; lineola 



nigra inter oculum et rictum ; annulo periophthalmico 



nitide albo ; subalaribus flavis ; rostro et pedibus nigrican- 



tibus. 



Long 4f ; rostr. a fr. 4|"'; al. 1" 11'"; caud. 13'"; tars. 6|"'. 



Syn. Z. flava, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 43, pi. 3. Z. citrina, 

 Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 22. Z. senegalensis, Bp. Consp. 

 p. 399; Reichenb. Meropin. p. 90, fig. 3288; Hartl. Syst. Orn. 

 Westafr. p. 72. Z. icterovh-ens, Herz. v. Wiirt. Icon. ined. 

 t.41.6. 



Inhabits Senegambia. The description is taken from a speci- 

 men from the Casamanse River. Atbara (Herz. v. Wiirt.). A 

 careful and repeated examination of the very fine figure in the 

 Duke of Wiirtemberg's 'Icones ineditse' leaves me no doubt as 

 to the identity of his Z. icterovirens with the well-known Senegal 

 species, Z. senegalensis, 



9. Z. viRENs, Sundev. 



Flavo-viridis ; gastrseo flavo, exceptis hypochoudriis conspicue 

 virescentibus ; loris nigris, superne flavis; rostro nigro; 

 pedibus fuscis. 

 Long.4|"; al.2"2'"; tars. 5f'. 



Syn. Zosterops virens, Sundev. Ofvers. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. 

 Forhandl. 1850, p. 101. 



Inhabits Upper Cafi"raria (Wahlb.). 



Nearly allied to the preceding, but larger and greener. Cer- 

 tainly distinct. 



b. Malacirops. 



10. Z. BORBONiCA (Briss.). 



Supra cinei'ea, subtus alba, latei'ibus pallide brunnescente lavatis ; 

 rectricibus et remigibus ftiscis, his dorsi colore fimbriatis ; 

 subalaribus et subcaudalibus albis ; rostro fusco ; pedibus 

 pallidis. 

 Long. 4"; rostr. a fr. 4'"; al. 2" 1'" ; caud. 1" 2'"; tars. 7i"'. 



Syn. Ficedula borbonica, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 510, pi. 28. fig. 3. 



Le petit Simon de Bourbon, Buft'. PI. Enl. 105. fig. 2; Hartl. 



