I056 YELPER—ZOSTEROPS 



thus YELLOWBIRD is the Xorth-American Siskin (page 847) and 

 perhaps more than one of the Mniotiltidx (Warbler, page 1022) : 

 YELLOWHAMMER, Germ. Goldammer (with many variant forms, 

 as YELLOW YELDROCK, YOLDRIN, YOWLEY and more), is 

 the Yellow-BuNTiNG (page 61) of this country, and in North America, 

 one of the Woodpeckers; YELLOWHEAD in New Zealand is 

 Clitonyx ochrocephalm, the representative in the South Island of 

 the Whitehead (page 1037) of the North; YELLOWLEGS is 

 an American Sandpiper, Totanus flavipes; YELLOWPOLL and 

 YELLOW-RUMP are American Warblers (page 1022), Dendrceca 

 aistiva, coronafa and maculosa ; while another of that group, Trichas 

 marylandica is the YELLOWTHROAT. 



YELPER, an old name for the AvoSET and also for the Black- 

 tailed GoDWiT {cf. Yarwhelp). 



YOKEL and YUKEL, local names of the Green Woodpecker 

 (page 1046). 



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ZOSTEROPS,^ originally the name of a genus founded by 

 Vigors and Horsfield {Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 235) on an Australian 

 species called by them Z. dorsalis,^ and latterly Anglicized in the 

 same sense, being applied, whether as a scientific or a vernacular 



^OSTEROPS. (After Swainson.) 



term, to a great number of little birds,'' which inhabit for the 

 most part the tropical districts of the Old World, from Africa to 

 most of the islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and north- 

 ward in Asia through India and China to Amurland and Japan. 



^ The derivation is ^wctttjp and &\^, whence the word should be pronounced 

 with all the vowels long. The allusion is to the ring of white feathers round 

 the eyes, which is very conspicuous in many species, and hence by most English- 

 speaking people in various parts of the world the prevalent Zostcro2}s is commonly 

 called " White-eye" oi- "Silver-eye." 



" Subsei|uently shewn to be identical M'ith the Certhia cs^rulcsccns, and also 

 with the Sylvia lateralis, previously described by Latham. 



=* In 1883 Dr. Sharpe {Cat. B. Br. Mas. ix. pp. 146-203) admitted 85 species, 

 beside 3 more which he had not been able to examine. 



