APPENDIX. 535 



Family ? 



Sp. 8. ZOSTEROPS ALBIGULARIS, Gould. 



White-breasted Zosterops. 

 Zostero'ps albogularis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part iv. p. 75. 



Zosterops albogularis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, 

 pi. 



The members of the genus Zosterops have a most extensive 

 range over the Old World. India proper has its own pecu- 

 liar species, and so have Southern Africa, Japan, and China ; 

 but the countries in which the species are most numerous are 

 Australia, Lord Howe's and Norfolk Islands, and the great 

 Papuan group, including New Caledonia and the adjacent 

 islands : in all these localities they occur in abundance. 

 Every island appears to have its own particular species, and 

 some of them two or three : Lord Howe's Island has two, and 

 in Norfolk and Philip Islands two others occur, and there are 

 at least three or four very distinct species in Australia. The 

 present bird was characterized by me as long since as August 

 1836 ; its native country is Norfolk Island, whence specimens 

 have been sent from time to time ever since it was formed 

 into a penal settlement. As is the case with the other 

 members of the genus, there appears to be but little difference 

 in the outward characters of the sexes, all the specimens that 

 have reached this country being very similar. 



All the upper surface and wing-coverts greenish olive, 

 strongly tinged with chestnut on the back; wings and tail 

 brown, margined with olive-green ; a broad zone of white 

 feathers surrounds each eye, bounded in front and below with 

 black ; throat and centre of the abdomen white ; flanks pale 

 chestnut ; under tail-coverts pale yellow ; bill and legs lead- 

 colour. 



Total length 5^ inches; bill |; wing 3 ; tail 2^; tarsi 1. 



