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331* White-throated Tree-Creeper, Woodpecker (e), C. 



scandens, S.Q., N.S.W., V., S.A., T. Stat. c. forest 6.5 

 Crown sooty-black; back olive-brown; buff band on wing; 

 throat, centre-abdomen white; flanks brownish-black 

 striped white; f., orange spot below ear. Insects. 

 Shrill piping cry. Creeps up. 



332 Red-browed Tree-Creeper, C. erythrops, S.Q., N.S.W., 



V., W.A. Stat. v.r. rough barked trees 6 



Back brown; head blackish-brown; forehead marked dusky- 

 gray; rump, tail gray; buff band on wing; face, stripe 

 above eye rust-red; throat white; under grayish-brown 

 striped white; f., face brighter; throat rust-red, striped 

 white. Insects. Creeps up. 



333 White-browed Tree-Creeper, G. superciliosa, Q., 



N.S.W., V., S.A., C.A., W.A. Stat. v.r. timber 5.7 



Upper brown; wings rich fawn band; broad white stripe 

 over eye; under grayish-brown; abdomen striped 

 white; f., narrow line rust-red above the white eye- 

 brow; tail washed with gray. Insects. Creeps up. 

 P. 140. ZOSTEROPIDAE (14), WHITE-EYES, Silver-eyes, 



171 sp.— 83(80)A., 38(34)0., 4(3)P., 50(50)E. 

 13 334*White-eye (Silver, Ring, Glass-), Blight-Bird (Spec- 

 157 tacled-), Grape-eater, Silve, Tauhou, Zosterops cocru- 



lescens, E.A., S.A., T., N.Z., Chatham Is. 



Stat. v.c. open gardens 4.5 

 Crown, wings, tail olive; back dark-gray; white ring round 

 eye; throat, centre-abdomen, under base tail whitish; 

 flanks chestnut-brown; sometimes throat, side-head yel- 

 low; f., sim. Insects, fruit. Pretty lively song. 

 335 Gray White-eye, Z. bowiae, V. (Marong). One speci- 

 men only. Mathews now says it is 334. 

 Like 334, but gray instead of olive, abdomen darker. 



spirally to the top. They soon fly off to another tree, alighting 

 lower than the place they started from. The bright-brown band 

 on the wing is conspicuous as they fly. Their lively notes 

 brighten a country drive. 



The White-eye is one of a large genus, for no less than 157 

 species have been accepted by Dr. Sharpe. However, one of the 

 rarest of these was a Victorian species. It was based on one 

 specimen, a female, taken at Marong, near Bendigo. It was said 

 to be slightly different from the common White-eye. Hence Dr. 

 Home, of Clifton Hill, one of our most enthusiastic bird-lovers, 

 created a new species, and named it in honor of his niece, Miss 

 Bowie, who is a favorite with all the birds in Dr. Home's exten- 

 sive aviaries. White-eyes are found from Africa and Madagas- 

 car to India and Japan, and from Australia out past New Zealand. 



Our common White-eye is one of the interesting birds of the 

 world at the present time, for it is showing that man is not the 

 only animal with a colonizing instinct. It was unknown in New 

 Zealand until, in 1856, it was first recorded. The Maoris, keen 



