ZOSTEROPS MOURONIENSIS. 179 



much larger species, Z. mouroniensis, on the same island, and 

 by Mr. Gr. A. Frank. 



Zosterops mouroniensis. 



Zosterops mouroniensis, Milne Edw. and Oust. C. E. Acad. Sc. ci. p. 121 

 (1885) ; iid. Ann. Sc. Nat. Zool. 1887, p. 222 ; iid. N. Arch. Mus. 

 H. N. Paris (2), x. p. 247, pi. 5, fig. 2 (1888) Gt. Comoro Is. ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 90 (1896). 



Adult Male. Similar to Z. kirki, but larger, and with the white round 

 the eye very much narrower, scarcely extending beyond the eyelids. Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-6, tail 2-25, tarsus 075. 



The Larger Great Comoro White-eye is restricted to the 

 Great Comoro Island. 



The name for the species is derived from that of a small 

 village where M. Humblot discovered the type. 



Not having seen a specimen I have taken my description 

 from Mr. Keulemans' figure of the species instead of following 

 MM. Milne Edwards and Oustalet in their comparison of it 

 with several more or less allied forms. 



Zosterops virens. (PI. 7, fig. 3.) 



Zosterops virens, Bp. Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 182 (1884) ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 325, 834 (1884) ; Distant, Naturalist in 

 Transvaal, p. 167 (1892) ; Kendall Ibis, 1896, p. 171 Transvaal; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 91 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1897, p. 525 Nyasaland; 

 Sharpe, t. c. p. 507 Ziduland; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 301 (1900). 



Zosterops capensis (nee Sundev.) Butler, Peilden and Eeid, Zool. 1882, 

 p. 247 Natal ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 834 (1884). 



Adult Male. Upper parts, including the wing-coverts and edges of the 

 quills and tail-feathers, yellowish green ; remainder of wings and tail dark 

 brown, with the inner edges of the quills and the under wing-coverts white, 

 the latter shading into bright pale yellow at the edge of the wing ; sides of 



