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175. Zosterops pallida. Pale White-eye. 



Zosterops pallida, Swains. "Anim. in Menag. p. 294 (1837) ; Layard B. 



S. Afr. p. 117 (1867) ; Sliarpc, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 324 (1884) ; 



id. Cat. B. M. ix, p. 160 (1884) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 7 (1896). 

 Zosterops lateralis, Simdev. (Efv. K. Vet.-AJcad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 101 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 117 (1867). 



Description. Adult male. Above, olive-green ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; upper tail-coverts yellower ; forehead and lores yellow ; 

 line before and under eye black ; eye -ring white ; ear- coverts and 

 sides of face olive-green ; wing and tail quills dark brown edged 

 externally with greenish; cheeks, throat, edge of wing and under 

 tail-coverts yellow ; rest of under surface white tinged with tawny, 

 the sides and flanks with grey-brown ; under wing-coverts white. 



Length 4-75 ; wing 2-35 ; tail 2-00 ; tarsus 0-70 ; culmen O50. 



Adult female. Eesembles the male in plumage. 



Distribution. The valley of the Orange Eiver, ranging into the 

 Southern Transvaal. Colesberg (Ortlepp). 



. Habits. Mr. T. Ayres, who met with this species in the Trans- 

 vaal, writes of it : " occasionally seen in small companies, actively 

 hopping and climbing about the hedges and trees during the winter 

 months." 



176. Zosterops capensis. Cape White-eye. 



Le tcheric, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii, pi. 132 (1802). 



Zosterops capensis, Simdev. (Efv. K. Vet-Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 



1850, p. 102 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 116 (1867) ; Gurney in Anders- 



son's B. Damara Land, p. 75 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. 



Afr. p. 322 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M, ix, p. 171 (1884) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 7 (1896). 

 Zosterops madagascariensis, Holub and Pelzeln, Orn. Sudafr. p. 75 



(1882). 



" Witte-oogie," " Glas-oogie " and " Karre-oogie " of the Dutch. 



Description. Adult male. Above, with the wing-coverts, olive- 

 green, tinged with yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wing and tail quills brown tinged externally with olive-green ; 

 forehead olive-yellow ; lores black ; eye-ring white ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of face green ; fore cheeks and throat bright yellow, 

 merging into light brown on the chest and abdomen, the sides 

 tinged with grey, the flanks with fulvous ; under tail-coverts and 

 tarsal joint bright yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 yellowish- white. 



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