198 ZOSTEROPS OL1VACEA. 



but it breeds plentifully in December. The nest is neatly 

 constructed of bark fibre and casuarine needles, usually placed 

 in a bush six feet from the ground in thick jungle. Two pale 

 eggs are laid." 



Zosterops olivacea. 



Zosterops olivacea (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 192 (1884) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 104 (1896). 



Adult. Upper parts, including the edges of the feathers of the wings 

 and tail, yellowish green, brighter and yellower on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, and more ashy towards the hind neck ; lores, forehead and crown 

 blackish ; cheeks and ear-coverts grey ; a white ring round the eye ; chin 

 white, passing into pale ashy grey on the throat ; breast ashy white, slightly 

 browner on sides of body ; under tail-coverts pale yellow ; under surface 

 of wings brown, with the coverts white and the inner edges of the quills 

 buff. "Bill black; iris yellow; feet brown" (Pollen). Total length 4-6 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-2, tail T85, tarsus 07. Bourbon (Bewsher). 



The Bourbon Olive White-eye is confiued to the island of 

 Reunion or Bourbon, one of the Mascarene group. 



The type is one of Leclancher's two specimens in the Paris 

 Museum. It is apparently not an uncommon species within 

 its very restricted range, and Mr. E. Newton certainly referred 

 to this species when he wrote : " At Bourbon (Reunion) there 

 is a bird called ' Tectec.' " 



This White-eye resembles Z. chloronota in having an 

 exceptionally long and slender bill, and like that species has 

 the yellow of the under parts confined to the tail-coverts, but 

 is readily distinguished by the uniform greenish yellow of the 

 upper parts, the crown only being strongly washed with black. 



Zosterops chloronota. 



Zosterops chloronota (Vieill.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. ix. p. 193 (1884) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 105 (1896). 



