242 MELIPHAGID^E. 



Gen. Zosterops Vtg. 



Bill of about the same length as the head, wide at base, somewhat conic, 

 acute at the tip and slightly but distinctly notched ; culmen slightly curved ; 

 rictus smooth ; eyes surrounded by close-set minute white feathers ; nostrils 

 longitudinal exposed ; wings moderate ; 1st primary extremely short; some- 

 times absent ; 3rd and 4th primaries longest and forming the tip of the wing ; 

 tail short, even ; tarsus moderate, covered in front with a few scales ; toes 

 strong ; outer syndactyle. 



748. Zosterops palpebrOSa (Temm.), Blyth, J. A. S B. xiv. 

 p. 563; Bp., Consp. Av. i. p. 398; Kelaart, Prod. Cat. p. 121 ; Jerd., 

 B. Ind ii. p. 265, No. 631 ; Stol, J. A. S. B. xxxvii. p. 51 ; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 82; Brooks, Ibis, 1869, p. 57; Holdsw., P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458; 

 Hume, Nests and JEggs, Ind. B. p. 397 ; Cock, and Mar-sli. Sir. F. 1873, 

 p. 356; Adams, t. c. p. 384; Hayes, Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 412; Legge, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 22; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 417; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 143; 

 Brooks, t. c. p. 252; Butler, t. c. p. 491 ; Blyth and Wold, B.Burm.^. HO; 

 Fairbk., Str. F. 1876, p. 260; id., 1877, P- 47 J David and Walden, Sir. F. 



1878, p. 84 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind, p. 42, ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 582 ; Hume, 

 Str.F. 1879, p. 104 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, p. 69 ; Butler, t. c. p. 413 ; Hume, 

 t. c. p. 413 ; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 165 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 

 p. 174. Sylvia palpebrosa, Temm., PL Col. 293, fig. 3 (1824). Zosterops 

 Madraspatensis, Jerd., Madr. Journ. xi, p. 7. Zosterops nicobarica, Blyili, 

 J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 563. Zosterops simplex, Sivinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 331; 

 Gould, B. Asia, part xxiii.; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 403; id., Str. F. 



1879, p. 104. Zosterops nicobariensis, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 242 ; 1879, 

 p. 104. Zosterops palpebrosa- nicobariensis, Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 291. 

 The WHITE-EYED TIT. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts siskin green, 

 yellowish on the upper tail coverts ; chin, throat and upper breast canary 

 yellow ; eyes with a circle of whrte feathers ; lower breast, abdomen and flanks 

 white with a bluish tinge ; vent, under tail and thigh coverts yellow ; primaries, 

 secondaries and tertiaries brown, edged externally with the colour of the back, 

 all margined white on their inner webs, except the innermost tertiaries ; edge 

 of wing and under wing coverts yellowish ; tail brown, the feathers margined 

 on their outer webs with greenish, and on their inner webs with whitish. Bill 

 blackish brown ; legs horny brown. 



Length. 4-5 inches ; wing 2-3 ; tail 1-7 ; bill at front 0*33 to 0-4; tarsus 0-75. 



Hal. India generally to Assam, Arracan, Nepaul and Ceylon ; also Sind, 

 (probably Kulch), Rajputana, Deccan, Concan, Central and Southern India, also 

 the Burmese countries eastwards into South China ; Andaman Islands, and 

 Nicobars. Found wherever it occurs in small flocks moving from tree to tree with 



