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Descnption.—Tj^e, adult male, No." 181589, U.S.N.M.; Piilo 

 Kalambau, Laurot Islands, Java Sea, December 7, 1907; Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Upper surface warbler gi'eeu, the upper tail-coverts 

 lighter, between warbler green and pyrite yellow; tail chaetura 

 drab, the feathei^s margined basally on external webs with warbler 

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

 except at tips, paler, ahuost whitish, the tertials hair bro\ni washed 

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

 outer vanes of wing-quiUs warbler green; broad orbital ring white; 

 a small black spot under the anterior part of the eye and continuous 

 with the black lores; supraloral stripe lemon chrome; remainder of 

 sides of head and neck between warbler green and pyrite yellow, 

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

 into the yellow of the lower smiace; lower parts medially rather 

 duU yellow, between lemon yellow and wax yeUow; flanks, with 

 sides of breast and body, pyrite yellow; lining of wing naphthalene 

 yellow. Total length,* 126 mm.; wing, 57.5; tail, 42.5; exposed 

 culmen, 11.5; tai"sus, 18.5; middle toe without claw, 10.5. 



Although Doctor Abbott obtained but a single specimen, this 

 differs in such a manner from Zosterops solomhensis soloinhensis of 

 Solombo Besar Island, that it seems to be without doubt subspeciii- 

 cally distinct. Its upper surface is more uniform, indeed, almost 

 of the same shade throughout, due chiefly to the fact that there is 

 much less contrast between the back and the upper tail-coverts. 



> Measured in the flesh bv the collector. 



