Birds from Southern Abi/ssin'ia. 595 



]\Iales and females are similar in size, the length of the wing 

 varying from 54—57 mm. 



112. ZOSTEROPS POLIOG ASTRA. 



Zosterops lioViogastra Heugl. ; Shelley, ii. p. 190 (1900) ; 

 Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, p. 2^1. 



Zosterops poliogastra erlangeri Neumann, Bull. B.O.C. xxi. 

 p. 60 (1908). 



A male of Heuglin's White-breasted White-eye was pi'o- 

 cured in the Managasha Forest, near Addis Abbaba, on the 

 28tli of October. A year later two males were collected in 

 Walamo, 6200 feet, in September. The first named specimen 

 is larger with a wing-measurement of 63 mm. ; while both 

 the latter are rather smaller, measuring 57 and 58 mm. 

 respectively. All these specimens have the sides and flanks 

 in very worn plumage and are greyer than examples killed 

 between December and May ; but an examination of the 

 October specimen shows that the brownish feathers are 

 partially grown. Neumann, who has separated the S. Abys- 

 sinian birds as Z.j)- erlangeri, maintains that Z. poliogastra 

 is confined to N. Abyssinia, and has scarcely any yellow 

 on the forehead, but an example from Tigre does not differ 

 in any way from the birds in the present collection. 



Professor Neumann writes (Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 60) that 

 the typical specimens of Z. poliogastra have a vellow super- 

 ciliary stripe which has been much exaggerated in the 

 figure given in the 'Ibis,' 1861, pi. xiii. I have examined 

 one of the typical examples from Semien kindly lent me 

 by Dr. Van Oort and find that there is no trace of a yellow 

 supercilium. I cannot see any reason for separating birds 

 from northern and southern Abyssinia. 



113. Zosterops jubaensis. 



Zosterops jubaensis Erlanger, Orn. Monatsb. ix. p. 182 

 (1901). 



Zosterops smithi Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. x. p. 139 

 (1902). 



The Juba or Ajuba White-eye was not pi-eviously repre- 

 sented in the British Museum. It is readily distinguished 



