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Family ZOSTEROPIDAE. 



ZOSTEROPS SOLOMBENSIS, new species. 



Specific cTiaracters. — Similar to Zosterops flava, from Java, but 

 much larger; upper parts much more greenish and more uniform, 

 the forehead and rump being barely more yellowish than the back; 

 yellow of lower parts duller, lighter, more greenish; sides and flanks 

 strongly washed with olive green; lores and line under eye blackish. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 181588, U.S.N.M.; Solombo 

 Besar Island, Java Sea, December 5, 1907; Dr. W. L, Abbott. Upper 

 surface warbler green, the pileum more yellowish; upper tail-coverts 

 lighter, between pyrite yellow and warbler green; tail chaetura 

 drab, the feathers margmed basally on external webs with warbler 

 green; wings chaetura drab, the inner margins of the remiges, except 

 at tips, paler, almost whitish, the tertials hair brown, washed with 

 warbler green; superior wing-coverts and outer margins of outer 

 vanes of wing-quills, warbler green; broad orbital ring white; a small 

 spot under the anterior part of the eye and continuous with the 

 lores, black; supraloral stripe lemon chrome; remainder of sides of 

 head and neck between pyrite yellow and warbler green, and passing 

 superiorly into the green of the upper parts, inferiorly into the 

 yellow of the lower surface; lower parts medially rather dull lemon 

 chrome; sides of breast and body, together with the flanks, between 

 pyrite yellow and warbler green; lining of wing naphthalene yellow. 

 Wing, 58 mm.; tail, 41.5; exposed culmen, 9;^ tarsus, 18; middle toe 

 without claw, 10.7. 



The sole specimen secured by Doctor Abbott is an adult in perfect 

 plumage, and differs so much from the other described forms of the 

 genus that it seems to represent a new species. It may be dis- 

 tinguished from Zosterops richmondi McGregor, from Cagayan- 

 ciUo Island, in the Philippine Archipelago, by its darker, more green- 

 ish (less yellowish) upper parts, the forehead not yellow; darker 

 wing-quiUs and rectrices; duller, paler, and narrower yellow supra- 

 loral stripe; rather more golden yellow lower surface, and darker, 

 more olive-washed sides and flanks. 



II. ARENDS ISLAND. 



Arends Island lies in the eastern part of the Java Sea, about 50 

 miles south of Cape Salatan, southeastern Borneo, and some 35 

 miles north of the island of Solombo Besar. 



Doctor Abbott stopped here on November 23 and 24, 1908, 

 and collected for the United States National Museum eight specimens 

 of birds, representing three species. Since there is apparently no 

 published account of any birds from Arends Island, and smce all 

 three of the species obtained by Doctor Abbott are of more than pass- 

 ing interest, it seems worth while to place them on record. 



' Tip slightly broken. 



