216 CKATEHOPO.D1.UJE. 



Coloration. Upper plumage together with the sides of the neck 

 olive-green; wings and tail dark brown edged with olive-green; a 

 ring of white feathers round the eye ; lores and under the eye 

 blackish ; chin, throat, upper breast, and under tail-coverts dull 

 oil-yellow ; lower breast and abdomen greyish white. 



Iris yellowish brown or reddish brown or pale brownish yellow ; 

 bill blackish, with the base beneath bluish or pale slaty ; legs and 

 feet bluish or pale leaden (Legge). 



Length about 4-5 ; tail 1'75; wing 2'2 ; tarsus '65; bill from 

 gape -6. 



Distribution. Ceylon, above 1500 feet of elevation. 



Habits, fyc. Breeds from March to May. The nest and eggs appear 

 to resemble those of Z. palpebrosa. The eggs measure about *64 

 by -45. 



230. Zosterops siamensis. The Siamese White-eye. 



Zosterops siamensis, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 34 ; Walden, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 350, pi. x, fig. 1 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 375 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 631 quat. ; Oates, S. F. x, p. 228 ; id. B. B. i, p. 343 ; Gaduw, 

 Cat. . M. ix, p. 180 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, 

 p. 592. 



Zosterops austeni, Walden, in Blyth's Birds Burm. p. Ill (1875) ; 

 Hume, S. F. v, p. 56 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 376 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 631 quint. 



Coloration. Lores and a small patch under the eye black ; a 

 circle of feathers round the eye white ; the whole plumage yellow, 

 brightest below ; wings and tail dark brown, each feather edged 

 externally with yellow, narrowly on the primaries, broadly on the 

 secondaries, and the yellow occupying nearly the whole of the 

 tertiaries. 



Iris light reddish brown ; bill horn-colour, plumbeous at the base 

 of the lower mandible and at the gape ; mouth flesh-colour ; feet 

 and claws light plumbeous. 



Length 4-2 ; tail 1-6 ; wing 2 ; tarsus -55 ; bill from gape '52. 



Distribution. Southern Pegu, about the towns of Rangoon and 

 Pegu ; Karennee ; Tenasserim, from That one to Amherst and 

 Muleyit mountain: also Siam and Cochin China. 



Habits, <$fc. This bird is found in forests and densely-wooded 

 gardens in the tops of high trees. It goes about in flocks and has 

 a low twittering note. 



Genus IXULUS, Hodgs., 1844. 



The genus Ixulus contains three species which are found on the 

 Himalayas and the hill-ranges of Assam and Burma. 



Ixulus resembles Yuhina in everything except the shape of the 

 bill, which in Ixulus is shorter, deeper, and more curved at the 

 tip. 



