202 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



8, Ispidina pida (Bodd.). — Mahfa River. 



9. Merops albicollis, Vieill. — Robertsport. 



10. » gularis ^ Shaw. — Mahfa River. 



11. Cin7iyris fuligmosus (Shaw). — Robertsport. 



12. » cyanolaemtis (Jard.). — Jarjee. 



13. » verticalis (Lath.). — Jarjee. 



14. » ohscurus (Jard.). — Jarjee. 



15. » chloropyc/ius (Jard. ). — Robertsport and Jarjee. 



16. » ventiskis (Shaw). — Robertsport. 



17. Anihreptes hypodilus (Jard.). — Robertsport. 



18. » rectirostris (Shaw). — Robertsport and Jarjee. 



*19. Zosterops demeryi, n.sp. 



A male specimen from Robertsport. 



General color on upper surface olive-green , more inten- 

 sely so on crown, sides of head, rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, and strongly tinged with gray on hind neck, 

 mantle and wing-coverts. Quills blackish , outer web edged 

 with silvery gray, edges on the secondaries broader and 

 strongly tinged with green. Inner web of all the quills 

 lined with white above as well as below. Wing-coverts 

 dusky, broadly edged with the color of the back. Tail- 

 feathers like quills, outer edges green, innermost pair 

 entirely olive-brown. Front, chin, throat and under tail- 

 coverts sulphur-yellow, a well-defined loral streak, which 

 is continued backward underneath the eye , pure black , a 

 ring round the eye silky white. Lower surface and flanks 

 ashy gray , strongly tinged with yellow , under wing-coverts 

 and edge of wing white , thighs white , faintly tinged with 

 yellow. Iris brown , bill black , feet gray. Length of wing 

 5 cM., tail 3,4 cM., culmen 1 cM., leg 1,5 cM. 



This species , which I propose to name after its discoverer, 

 differs from the allied Z. ahyssinica and Z. poliociasler by its 

 inferior size , the duller upper surface , and more especially 

 by the yellowish breast and flanks and the silvery gray 

 outer edges of the primaries. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XII. 



