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forehead yellow, which colour just crosses the base of the forehead ; a ring 

 of white feathers round the eye. with a black loral patch in front of eye and 

 edging the white ring beneath ; ear-coverts and sides of neck green like the 

 back ; throat, centre of breast, thighs and under tail-coverts bright yellow 

 shading into yellowish green on the sides of the body. " Bill black ; iris 

 light brown; tarsi and feet ash colour" (T. Ayres). Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-3, tail 1-8, tarsus 06. Pinetown, 30. 7. 75 (T. L. Ayres). 

 Adult Female. Like the male. Total length 4-3 inches, culrnen 0-45, 

 wing 2-3, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-7. Pinetown, 30. 7. 75 (T. L. Ayres). 



The Natal Grreen White-eye ranges over South-eastern 

 Africa from Kingwilliamstown to Lake Nyasa. 



The most southern and western range known to me for 

 this species is Kingwilliamstown, where Captain Trevelyan 

 collected several specimens. Some little distance inland the 

 type of the species was discovered by Wahlberg in " Upper 

 Kaffraria." 



In Natal the species is common, and probably some of the 

 White-eyes I met with at Durban belonged to this form, for 

 shortly after I left my friend Mr. T. L. Ayres sent me several 

 specimens from Pinetown, and his father, Mr. T. Ayres, writes 

 from Natal : " These birds are gregarious, and very plentiful in 

 the spring of the year (September and October). They do 

 considerable damage to soft fruit, such as the loquat and 

 mulberry ; but also do much good in clearing the trees of 

 insects, climbing and hunting amongst the buds and leaves in 

 search of them. They almost constantly utter a loud, mono- 

 tonous, weeping note, which somewhat resembles that of the 

 Nectarinice, and especially of Nectarinia amethystina." 



Messrs. Butler, Feilden and Eeid write : " A common 

 species, universally distributed throughout the colony. Many 

 specimens were obtained in the kloofs of the Drakensberg, near 

 Newcastle, and it was also shot near Durban. It was usually 

 found in small parties." 



In Zululand the Messrs. Woodwards collected two specimens 



