174 ZOSTEROPS SENEGALENSIS. 



the wings and tail brown ; sides of the head and neck like the mantle, but 

 shading into bright pale yellow on the forehead, throat, under surface of 

 body and under tail-coverts ; a silky white ring round the eye, with a black 

 loral patch in front of and below this ring ; under wing-coverts and inner edges 

 of quills white, the former partially washed with yellow. Bill black with 

 the base of the lower mandible leaden grey ; iris reddish brown ; legs leaden 

 grey. Total length 36 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-2, tail 1-5, tarsus 06. 

 Bathurst (Brit. Mus.). 



This species differ chiefly from Z. kirki, of Great Comoro Island, in the 

 general paler yellow shade of the plumage, and from Z. flava, of Borneo, in 

 having a black loral band extending above the gape to half way along the 

 under edge of the white eye-ring. 



The Senegal Yellow White -eye ranges through Senegambia 

 into Liberia, eastward across the continent to Keren on the 

 Anseba river (17° N. lat.), and south to Ugogo (7° S. lat.). 



The type of the species was procured by Swainson 

 from Senegal, Marche's collection contained specimens from 

 Bathurst, Verreaux's from Casamanse and Beaudouin's from 

 Bissao. In the British Museum there are five specimens from 

 Senegambia ; here, according to Dr. P. Rendall, it is a rare 

 bird. From Liberia the types of Z. demeryi and Z. obsolete/,, 

 Biittik. were sent to the Leyden Museum in spirits by the late 

 Mr. A. T. Demery, and were brought over by Mr. Biittikofer 

 for comparison with the Zosteropidce in the British Museum, 

 where we agreed together that they were really specimens of 

 Z. senegalensis, with their true colours completely obliterated 

 by the spirits in which they had been preserved ; the latter 

 specimen, apparently a younger bird, had suffered the most. 

 A very similar case is Z. prsetermissa, Tristram, which was 

 described from a specimen of Z. anjuanensis similarly pre- 

 served. This is a warning to all ornithologists against an 

 improper use of strong spirits. 



It is strange that this species has not been recorded from 

 any other part of the West African coast, for Dr. R. B. Sharpe 

 mentions a " male from Dem Suleiman, November," and there 



