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narrow zone of white feathers, bounded below by a line of 

 blackish brown. 



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



Sp. 10. ZOSTEROPS STRENUUS, Gould. 



Robust Zosterops. 

 Zosterops strenuus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part xxiii. p. 166. 



Zosterops strenuus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, pi. 



Lord Howe's Island, although but scantily supplied with 

 vegetation, is not devoid of bird-life even of the great order 

 of Insessores, being inhabited by at least two species of the 

 present genus. Her Majesty's Ship * Herald,' commanded by 

 Captain Denham, having paid a visit to this interesting spot 

 in the wide ocean, Mr. Macgillivray had an opportunity of 

 extending his fame as a successful naturalist by securing and 

 sending, with many other interesting objects, an example 

 of each of these species, which I find to be quite different 

 from all others that have come under my notice. Its prominent 

 characters consist in its comparatively great size, robust body 

 and powerful bill ; at the same time, in the general style of 

 its colouring, in its snow-white eye-ring, and in all other 

 essential points, it closely agrees with the other species of 

 the genus of which it is a member. 



The only specimen of this new bird which has yet been 

 transmitted to this country now forms part of the National 

 Collection. 



Head and upper surface bright olive-green, with a mark of 

 dark grey across the shoulders ; wings and tail slaty-brown, 

 margined with greenish-olive ; eyes surrounded by the usual 

 ring of white feathers, beneath which is a narrow line of 

 black ; chin and throat yellow ; flanks pale vinaceous-brown ; 

 centre of the abdomen nearly white ; under tail-coverts pale 

 yellow ; bill and feet bluish-black. 



Total length 5f inches ; bill 1 ; wing 2f ; tail 2\ ; tarsi |. 



