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My bird is considerably larger, as will be seen : — 



J. terricolor, Length, 8 ; wing, 4'0 ; tail, 3'9 ; bill from gape, I/O. 

 I. cinerea, „ 7 ; „ 3'75 ; „ 3"25 ; „ 0-87. 



Then again cinerea has the upper parts cinereous brown, the 

 forehead and above the eye ashy, which color also margins the 

 pointed feathers of the crown, whereas there is not a trace 

 in terricolor of any cinereous tinge on the upper surface. It 

 is a very uniform pure brown, a little warm in its tinge, inter- 

 mediate between an earth brown and hair brown, though near- 

 est the latter. 



Again the ear-coverts in terricolor form a most conspicuous 

 patch which could scarcely have escaped Blyth's notice, but no 

 mention of these is made in his description of cinerea. 



On the whole I believe terricolor is probably distinct, but I for- 

 got to refer to Iole cinerea when describing it, and think it 

 right, therefore, now to draw attention to the fact that the two 

 may possibly be identical. 



Referring to Moore's Orthotonus maculicollis, P. Z. S., 

 1854, 309, from Malacca, and Mr. Sharpe's remarks on this spe- 

 cies, Ibis, 1877, 116, in which he suggests that the bird may 

 have come from one of the Philippine Islands, it may be 

 interesting to state that Davison shot a male of this species on 

 Singapore Island on 20th September. 



The bird is very like sutorius, but is distinguished at once 

 by its larger bill, duller colors, bright ferruginous thigh-coverts, 

 and brown, white streaked ear-coverts and sides of head. 



In Vol. VL, p. 519, I noticed having obtained near Tavoy 

 a specimen of a Zosterops which I said might either be an acci- 

 dental variety of Z. palpebrosa, or might indicate a new species. 

 I said that, if other specimens were obtained, the bird would 

 require a name, and that in that case it might stand as 

 Z. aurivenier. 



I now find that I have five similar specimens from different 

 parts of the Malay Peninsula, and though apparently not pre- 

 viously thence recorded, I entertain little doubt that these spe- 

 cimens are referable to Z. lateralis, Tem., MSS. in Mus. Lug- 

 den ; Hartlaub, Monograph of the genus Zosterops, J. F. O., 

 1865, p. 15. 



Hartlaub says of this species, of which he was the first 

 I believe to publish any description : " Numerous specimens of 

 this species from both Java and Sumatra are in the Leyden 

 Collection. Henri Boie collected this species in July on Tapos 



