ZOSTEROPS PALLIDA. 187 



Bill blackish with the edges and base of lower mandible of a paler shade ; 

 feet brown ; iris pale chestnut. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 052, 

 wing 2-5, tail 2, tarsus 0-84. 



The Annobon White-eye inhabits the small island of that 

 name in the Atlantic in about 1° 30' S. lat. by 6° E. long. 



The species was discovered by Mr. F. Newton, who informs 

 us that it is common in Annobon ; remarkable by its very 

 melodious song, and is called by the inhabitants of the island 

 " Bichili." It appears to me to be quite possible that the 

 specimen referred to by Sousa in 1888 as Zosterops ficedulina, 

 supposed to have come from St. Thomas Island, really belongs 

 to this species. 



Zosterops pallida. (Pi. 7, fig. 2.) 



Zosterops pallida, Swains. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 160 (1884) ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 324, 834 (1884) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 

 98 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 302 (1900). 



Malacirops pallida, Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 28. 



Adult Male. Upper parts, including the ear-coverts, sides of neck and 

 edges of the feathers of the wings and tail, yellowish green ; remainder of 

 wings and tail dark brown, with the under wing-coverts and inner edges of 

 the quills buffy white ; a yellow band ou each side of the forehead just 

 reaching across the base of the forehead ; a ring of white feathers encircles 

 the eye, margined beneath by the continuation of the black loral band ; 

 chin, throat and under tail-coverts very pale yellow ; breast white with 

 sandy rufous on the body, crop and thighs. Bill hoary black, with the basal 

 part of the lower mandible ashy blue ; iris light brown. Total length 

 4-6 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-5, tail 21, tarsus 0-7. Orange B. (Atmore). 



Adult Female. Like the male ; tarsi and feet brownish ash. Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-25, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. Orange B. 

 (Atmore). 



BurchelPs Pallid White-eye ranges over South Africa from 

 Swellendam to Rustenberg. 



