44 YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 



all of a small size, nearly intermediate in their alfi 

 uities between warblers and titmice. Only one 

 species, we believe, is found in the New World ; the 

 others, about twelve in number, being restricted to 

 the warm latitudes of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 

 One of them, the Zosterops curmrostris^ Swains, 

 (the Diceum Moronotw of the Paris Museum), has 

 the bill nearly as much curved as some of the honey- 

 suckers. The general plumage of all those hitherto 

 discovered is green above and yellowish beneath ; 

 so that the species, otherwise well marked, possess 

 a strong mutual resemblance in the general cast of 

 their colours. One of these, hitherto undescribed, 

 inhabits Senegal, and is the D. flava of our plate. 

 It is of the size of Z. dorsalis, an Australian species, 

 but the bill, which is black, is larger. The upper 

 plumage is of a bright greenish yellow, the under 

 pure and bright yellow, uniform in all its parts. 

 The quills and tail are blackish, edged with yellow ; 

 the snow-white ring round the eye is very conspi- 

 cuous, and it is connected to the base of the bill 

 by a deep black line ; the tail, although divaricated, 

 is even, and the bill and feet blackish. 



Total length, 4 inches ; bill, from the front, ^5 ; 

 ditto, from the gape, ^; tail beyond the wings, 1. 



