White- eyes {Zosterops) 3 



SPECIES SIZE IN HAIUTAT. 



INCHES. 



cJilorates ■!. Sumatra. 



mimila 1.2 hifii, Loyalty Islands. 



oHvatea 4.5 Is. of Bouiboii or lleunion. 



chloronota 4. AJaurJlius. 



modesta 4.2 Seychelles. 



mauriliana i).8 Mauritius. 



buibonica, 4.5 Is. of lieuiiioii or Bourbon. 



javaiiica 4.7 Java. 



[allax , 5.2 Java and Sumatra. 



/inscli.'i 4.5 J'ulew Is. 



ci/ierea 4.6 Kusliai and Ualan Is. 



'ponapensis Is. of Poiiape. 



mclanops 4.8 Loyalty Is. 



liKjubiis 4.8 \\ . Africa: Is. of St. Thomas in 



the Bight of Benin. 



uiclaiiocephuli 4.7 W. Africa: Cameroons district. 



leucjphoea 5. W. Africa: Gaboon, Piinces Is. 



atriceps 4.7 Is. of Batchian in the Moluccas. 



fiuscifrons 4.25 Is. of Gilolo or Halmahera, in the 



Moluccas. 



mi/.soriends 4.25 Js. of Misori, N.W. New Guinea. 



Jii/pok'uca, 4. New Guinea. 



muelleri 5.3 Is. of Timor. 



frlglda 4. Sumatra. 



ficciluli/Ki 4.5 Trince's Is., W. Africa. 



The above list u compiled from Vol. IX of the B.M.C., 

 ;uid the measurements, all probably taken from skins, may 

 prove iu many instances, to be a little larger than the living 

 bird. 



The Indian White -eve: Our frontispiece depicts an 

 episode in my aviary, in 1911, when the Indian White-eye (Z. 

 palpebrosa), reared three young ones, two of which are still 

 livmg. The plate is true to life, the branch of the tree 

 was drawn on the spot, and Mr. Goodchild has aptly caught 

 the position of the birds, as they hopped about, and cared 

 for their family, and the plate in my opinion does credit both 

 to the artist and the lithographer, and is, I hope, merely the 

 forerunner of many others depicting similar scenes. 



The charm and interest of these dainty sprites is beyond 

 description, whatever feature one seeks to describe. In gen- 

 eral demeanour and deportment they resemble the Gold -crested 

 Wren and they are about the same size or very little larger. 

 One can watch them almost for hours without tiring, first to 

 see them, Creeper-like, examining bark and leaves, then sway- 

 hig on a tall grass stem, then swooping (lluttering) to and 

 fro, foraging on the wing, and again walking wrong side 

 up on roof netting of llight in the eager search for small iij- 



