300 ZOSTEROPID^E ZOSTEROPS 



White-eyes appear to lay unspotted pale blue eggs in small cup- 

 shaped nests built in trees or bushes. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Above olive-yellow; the forehead and rump 



yellower ; below bright yellow, the sides and 



flanks tinged with olive .............................. Z. anderssoni, 800. 



b. Above grass -green ; the forehead and under sur- 



face bright yellow, the sides and flanks tinged 



greenish ................................................... Z. virens, p. 301. 



c. Above olive-green ; the forehead, throat and under 



tail- coverts yellow ; rest of under surface white 



tinged with tawny ....................................... Z. pallida, p. 302. 



d. Above olive-green ; the forehead olive-yellow ; 



the throat and under tail- coverts bright yellow ; 



rest of under surface light brown .................. Z. capensis, p. 302. 



173. Zosterops anderssoni. Andersson's White-eye. 



Zosterops senegalensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 325 (1884) ; 



id. Cat. B. M. ix, p. 181 (1884). [nee Bp.] 

 Zosterops anderssoni, Shelley, Bull. B. 0. Club, 1892, i, p. 5 ; id. Ibis, 



1893, p. 118 ; 1896, p. 180 ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 7 (1896). 



Description. Adult male. Above, crown, back and least and 

 middle wing-coverts, olive-yellow ; the forehead and rump yellower ; 

 greater wing-coverts, quills and tail-feathers brown edged with 

 yellowish ; lores black ; eye-ring white ; below, bright yellow, tinged 

 with olive on the sides and flanks. 



Iris brown ; bill black; legs and feet dark brown. 



Length 4-50; wing 2-45 ; tail 1-90; tarsus 0'65 ; culmen 0'45. 



Distribution. All Africa south of the Sahara, excepting the 

 forest region on the west coast and the extreme south. Obtained 

 by Andersson on the Okavango Eiver, but not either in Great 

 Namaqua or Damara Land ; by Anchieta in Mossamedes, and by 

 Whyte in Nyasaland. 



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