178 ZOSTEROPS KIRKI. 



been feeding on figs and small insects, and further remarks : 

 " Common at all seasons, busily searching the trees for insects 

 either in pairs or family parties of 5 or 6." 



No doubt to this species belongs a female obtained by Dr. 

 Stuhlmann at Quilimane, January 29, where it was known to 

 the natives as " Tschiliko." 



Dr. R. B. Sharpe in Layard's " B. S. Afr." has evidently 

 described a typical specimen of Z. senegalensis, and not a 

 South African example, for his measurements of the wing and 

 tail are much too small. The " Distribution " given for this 

 species in the " Fauna of South Africa " is far from being 

 correct. 



Zosterops kirki. 



Zosterops kirki, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. G76 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ix. 



p. 182 (1884) Great. Comoro Is. ; Tristr. Ibis, 1887, p. 370 ; Milne 



Edw. and Oust. Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool. 1887, p. 223 ; iid. N. Arch. Mus. 



Hist. Nat. Paris (2), x. p. 248, pi. 8, fig. 1 (1888) ; Shelley, B. Afr. 



I. No. 89 (1896). 

 Zosterops angazizse, Milne Edw. and Oust. C. E. Acad. Sc. ci. p. 221 



(1885). 



Adult. Above, including the wing-coverts and edges of the tail-feathers, 

 deep olive yellow, slightly yellower on the rump ; remainder of the wings 

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

 deep yellow on the sides of the forehead, the throat, breast and under tail- 

 coverts ; a silky white ring round the eye, with a black loral patch in front 

 and below this ring ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills white, 

 the former partially washed with yellow. Total length 4 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 1-5, tarsus 0.5. Gt. Comoro Is. (G. A. Frank). 



Kirk's White-eye is confined to Great Comoro, otherwise 

 known as Angaziza Island. 



The type specimens, probably male and female, were col- 

 lected by Sir John Kirk ; they are similar in plumage, but 

 the probable female is slightly duller in its colouring. It has 

 since been procured by M. Humblot, who discovered another 



