All tiighti< Reserved. January, 1913. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE 



JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 



White-eyes (Zosterops). 



By Wesley T. Pa(;e, F.Z.S., Etc. 

 It is quite impossible for me to attempt an article 

 on tlie genus Zosterops, as there are over ninety species 

 and sub-species, and there are already too many series 

 yet to be finished from my pen, and I must not undertake 

 another. Possibly, however, a list of species with size and 

 range may be useful. The species I am giving in the same 

 order, as they appear in Brit. Mus. Cat., Vol. IX., they are 

 as follows: 



SPECIES SIZE IN HABITAT. 



INCHES. 



(cr,.ulesce)i.s 4.(i A.u.st., N. Zealand, Cliathara Islands. 



alb'guliris 5.8 Noifolk Island. 



ti^nurostri^ 5. Noifolk Island. 



strenua 5.7 Lord Howe's Island. 



westernensis .4.5 Aust., N. Caledonia, N. Hebrides, 



Lord Howe's, and Figi Islands. 



ramsay* 4.4 Palm Island, Torres Straits. 



vatensis 5.3 Vate, New Hebrides. 



inornata 5.3 Loyalty Islands. 



auieifrons 4.5 Flores and Sumbawa. 



pallida 4.7 S. Africa — along the Orange Riv. 



and extending into theTi-ansvaal. 



japonica 4. Japan. 



erythrop^eura .' 3.5 Fi'om S. Amoorlaud, extending 



throughout China to Aloupin. 



gouldi ■ 4.3 Western Austialia. 



grayi 5. Ke Islands, Moluccas. 



aur'eirenfer 3.4 Fiom S. Teaiasserirn down the Mal- 



ayan Pen. to Sumatra, Java and 

 Timor. 



eveie'tl, 4.5 Phillipine Islands. 



albiventer, 4.6 Ca|)e Gienville and Islands of 



Torres Straits. 



crissalis 4. South-eastern New Guinea. 



palpebrosa ' 4. India— Himalayas to Ceylon, with 



the Laccadives; Burmese coun- 

 tries eastwards, into S. China; 

 .Andaman Is. and Nicobars. 



siibrosea 4. Hankow, Central China. 



* Probably identical with westernensis. 



