176 ZOSTEROPS SENEGALENSIS. 



Sesse Island, Bukoba, Fadjulli, Wandi, Kiri and Wadelai. At 

 this latter place Emin procured the type of Z. super ciliosa, and 

 remarked tliat tliey were not rare in this district and generally 

 seen in pairs frequenting the thickly foliaged trees. 



I find no mention of these White-eyes to the north of 

 Wadelai and Somaliland until we reach Abyssinia. Here 

 again the species has been broken up into three subspecies 

 by von Heuglin, who is the only naturalist giving us any 

 information on them from this country. Their apparent rarity 

 here, he suggests, is possibly owing to their quiet habits, the 

 call-note being a low piping "schi," and the song much re- 

 sembles that of our Willow Warbler, but is not so loud. They 

 feed on small insects, and are usually to be met with in pairs, 

 but in the late autumn often assemble in parties of six to 

 twelve individuals. 



Von Heuglin, while at Keren in the Anseba valley, between 

 3,500 and 4,000 feet, discovered the type of his Zosterops 

 aurifrons, and at Bongo the type of his Zosterops pallescens. 

 In Sennaar Prince P. of Wurtemburg procured a specimen 

 which was first described by von Heuglin as Zosteropsyhia 

 icterovirens. 



If we divide Z. senegalensis, as I understand it, into three 

 subspecies they would probably have the following synonyms : 



1. Z. senegalensis, Bp. (1850), Senegambia. 

 Z. demeryi, Biittik. (1890), Liberia. 



Z. obsoleta, Biittik. (1890), Liberia. 



2. Z. pallescens, Heugl. (1862), Bongo. 

 Z. heuglini, Hartl. (1865), Bongo. 



Z. flavilateralis, Reichen. (1892), E. Africa. 



3. Z. tenella, Hartl. (1865), Keren. 



? Zosteropsylvia icterovirens, Heugl. (1867), Sennaar. 



Z. stuhlmanni, Reichen. (1S92), Bukoba and Sesse Island. 



?Z. superciliosa, Reichen. (1892), Wadelai. 



