WHITE-WINGED TIT. 43 



The colour of the plumage is simple and striking ; 

 the whole bird, excepting the wings, is of a deep 

 and uniform black, reflecting in certain lights a 

 slight bluish gloss; the wings are also black, but 

 this colour is relieved by the lesser and greater 

 covers, as well as the margins of all the quills being 

 of a pure snowy white, so that when the wing is 

 closed, very little of the black upon them is seen. 

 From this circumstance we have named the species, 

 there being already a Parus ater, which renders 

 that of niger^ applied to this species, doubly inap- 

 propriate. 



Total length nearly 6 inches; bill, from the 

 gape, \ ; wings, 3 ; tail beyond, If ; from the base, 

 2^ ; tarsus, T 7 9 ; hind toe and claw, ^. 



YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 



Zosterops Jlava, SWAINS. 

 PLATE III, 



Bright yellow, tinged above with greenish; eyelids white; 

 between the bill and eye a blackish line. 



WE give the vernacular name of White-Eye to a 

 singular group of little birds distinguished, among 

 other characters, by having the eyelids surrounded 

 by a narrow ring of snow-white feathers. They are 



