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e\ ery\vliTr I).- found. The nest is a very delicate little cup made ot* 

 vegetable fibres and cobwebs, suspended in a fork of a small branch 

 at all heights from the. ground. The eggs are generally two in 

 number and pale blue without marks, but occasionally some eggs 

 may be met with marked at the larger end with darker blue. The 

 - measure about -62 by "47. 



227. Zosterops aureiventris. Humes White-eye. 



Zosterops lateralis, Ttmm., Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 15 ; 

 Ticeedd. His, 1877, p. 303; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 452 j id. Cat. 

 no. 631 A (nee Lath.}. 



Zosterops palpebrosa (Temm.), apud Bl. $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 110, 

 part. 



Zosterops auriventer, Hume, S. F. vi, p. 519 (1878) ; viii, pp. 163, 

 497 ; Oates, B. B.\, p. 344 j Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 163 j Sal- 

 vador i, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2), v, p. 592. 



Zosterops buxtoni, Nicholson, Ibis, 1879, p. 167. 



Coloration. Resembles Z. palpebrosa. Differs in having a broad 

 yellow baud down the middle of the abdomen and a shorter tail. 

 The tail is seldom more than 1/4 in length and never exceeds 1/5. 

 The greenish-yellow margins to the tail-feathers are reduced in 

 extent and sometimes quite absent. 



Distribution. I have examined specimens of this species from the 

 Karen hills and Karennee procured by Wardlaw Rainsay, and 

 others from Tavoy collected by Davison. I did not procure it in 

 Pegu. 



This bird extends down the Malay peninsula to the islands of 

 Sumatra and Java. 



228. Zosterops simplex. Swinhoe's White-eye. 



Zosterops simplex, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 203; id. Ibis, 1863, p. 294 ; 



Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 13 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 403 ; id. Cat. 



no. 631 B ; Stuan, Ibis, 1887, p. 227. 

 Zosterops palpebrosa (Temm.),apud Hume, S. F. iii, p. 143; apud 



Oates, S. F. x, p. 227 ; id. B. B. i, p. 342. 



Coloration. Resembles Z. palpebrosa. Differs in having the 

 whole upper plumage olive-green instead of golden yellow. The 

 dimensions of the two species are the same. 



Distribution. I procured a few specimens of this bird in Lower 

 Pegu round the town of Pegu, and it is probably this species that 

 Feilden obtained at Thayetmyo. Blanford records it from East 

 Xepal (J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 157). It is found throughout 

 Southern China. 



229. Zosterops ceylonensis. The Ceylon White-eye. 



Zosterops annulosus, Kelaart, Prod. p. 121 (nee Swainson}. 

 Zosterops ceylonensis, Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 459, pi. 20, fig. 2 ; 



Hume, S. *F. vii, p. 404 ; Leyge, Birds CeyL p. 585, pi. xxvi, fig. 2 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 631 bis ; Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix, p. 173; Oates in 



Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. i, p. 145. 



