1056 VELPER=ZOSTERORS 
thus YELLOWBIRD is the North-American SISKIN (page 847) ‘and 
perhaps more than one of the Mniotiltidy (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 WooppEcKERS; YELLOWHEAD in New Zealand is 
Clitonyx ochrocephalus, the representative in the South Island of 
the WHITEHEAD (page 1037) of the North; YELLOWLEGS is 
an American SANDPIPER, Zotanus. flavipes; YELLOWPOLL and 
YELLOW-RUMP are American WARBLERS (page 1022), Dendreca 
astiva, coronata and maculosa; while another of that group, Z'richas 
marylandica is the YELLOWTHROAT. 
YELPER, an old name for the AvosET and also for the Black- 
tailed Gopwir (cf. YARWHELP). 
YOKEL and YUKEL, local names of the Green WOODPECKER 
(page 1046). 
V) 
ZOSTEROPS,! originally the name of a genus founded by 
Vigors and Horsfield (Zrans. 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 
CS 
ZostErors. (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. 
1 The derivation is fwornp and SY, 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 Zosterops is commonly 
called ‘‘ White-eye” or ‘‘ Silver-eye.”’ 
2 Subsequently shewn to be identical with the Certhia cwrulescens, and also 
with the Sylvia lateralis, previously described by Latham. 
3 In 1883 Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. pp. 146-203) admitted 85 species, 
beside 3 more which he had not been able to examine, 
