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Genus — ZOSTEROPS. — First primary extremely short or wanting (except 

 in the brown species). 



301. Z. CCeruleSCeUS, Lath, (includes Z. westerncnsis, Quoy and Gaim. ; 



North), Silver eye. 



Crown olive-green ; back brown ; imder surface not uniform ; 

 throat white, sometimes tinged with olive. 

 Hab. : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 



302. Z. ramsayi. Masters, Yellow-vented Silver-eye. 



Crown of head, neck, throat, wings, rump, and under tail coverts 

 greenish-yellow ; lores and line beneath eye Ijlack ; back and ch est 

 bluish-grey ; abdomen light-grey, passing into buft' on flanks ; 

 primaries and secondaries brownish-black, margined on outer webs 

 with yellowish beneath, on inner webs with whitish ; tail brown, 

 margined with yellow. 



H. Gadow considers it may be identical with Z. westerncnsis. 

 Hab. : 2 (?). 



303. Z. gOUldi, Bparte., Green-backed Silver eye. 



Head and rump of same tint as back, though sometimes brighter ; 

 throat olive-yellow ; bi^east ashy-grej' ; sides of body clear rufous or 

 pale chestnut. 

 Hab : 9. 



304. Z. albiveilter, Reichenbach (includes Z. flavogularis, Masters), 



Pale-bellied Silver-eye. 



Head and rump of same tint as back, though sometimes brighter ; 

 throat sulphur-yellow ; breast pale ashy ; sules of body pale ashy- 

 grey ; under tail coverts sulphur-yellow. 

 Hab. ; 1, 2. 



3Ur>. Z. lutea, Gld., Yellow Silver-eye. 



Throat yellow, like rest of under surface ; colour above grass-green. 

 Bill, 5 in. 



Hab. : 1, 2. 



306. Z. gullivcri, Castelnau and Ramsay, Gulliver Silver-eye.' 



Colour above olive-yellow ; throat yellow, like rest of under sur- 

 face. Bill nearly 0*6 in. 

 Hab. : 1. 



Genus— MELITHREPTUS. —Bill shorter than rest of head ; operculum 

 partly covered with feathers : first primary about third length of 

 very long second primary ; tip of wing formed by third, fourth, and 

 fifth ; secondaries veiy short, two-thirds length of wing ; tail 

 slightly emarginate. 



307. M. llinulatllS, Shaw (British Museum Catalogue includes M. 



chloropsis, Gld.), Lunulated Honey-eater. 



Crown of head black ; white band across occiput ; chin pure 

 white ; under surface white ; naked space above eye scarlet ; wing, 

 2-8 in. to 3-1 in. 



Hab. : 3, 4. 



308. M. albiglllaris, Gld. (sub-sp. of M. lunulatus), White-throated 



Honey -eater. 



Wintf, 2-6 in. to 2-8 in. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 8. 



309. M. chloropsis, Gld. 



Similar to lunulatus ; larger, and naked space above eye greenish- 

 white. 



Hab. : 9. 



