]8 COLLECTIONS FKOM MELANESIA. 



different islands in Torres Straits, one of the localities mentioned by 

 the last-named author being Warrior Island, whence the original 

 type of Z. albiventris came. 



29. Zosterops lutea, Gould. 



Sharpe, t. c. p. 183; Ramsay, t. c. p. 191. 



a. 2 ■ Port Darwin, Oct. 1 88 1 . Bill horn-colour ; legs grey. 



This specimen is rather duller in colour than a male from 

 Cape York, and much paler yellow below, this brighter colour 

 being probably due to sex, as the Cape-York bird is evidently 

 an adult male. The female measures: — Total length 4-1 inches, 

 culmenO-45, wing 2*2, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-6. 



30. Manorhina garrula {Lath.). 



Gadow,t. c. p. 260. 



Myzantha garrula, Ramsay, t. c. p. 191. 



a. $ . Port Curtis, Queensland, April 1881. 

 6. tf. Port Curtis, April 1881. 



Young birds are washed on the back with olive-yellow, and are 

 much darker above and below, not showing the whitish bars at the 

 tips of the mantle- feathers. 



31. Stigniatops ocularis (Gould). 



Ramsay, t. c. p. 189. 



Glyciphila ocularis, Gadoiv, t. c. p. 213. 



a. J. Percy Island, April 1881. 



32. Stigniatops subocularis, Gould. 



Ramsay, t. c. p. 189. 



( rlyciphila subocularis, pt., Gadow, t. c. p. 215. 



a. J- P° r t Darwin, Xov. 1881. Pill, legs, and feet black. 



Dr. Gadow has united the present species to S. ocularis, and con- 

 siders that intermediate forms occur between them. This I do 

 not find from an examination of the series in the British Museum, 

 for I have found no difficulty in referring the specimens either 

 to one or the other of the above-named species. On the other 

 hand, Count Salvadori seems to be quite right in uniting the Aru- 

 [sland birds with the Australian, as they are only a little 

 larger and somewhat darker in colour. He adds that the speci- 

 mens marked Ptilotis limbata, Temm., from Timor, in the Leiden 

 Museum, are also identical with the Australian S. ocularis. Timor 



