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Leg's, feet, claws and lower mandible fleshy white ; upper 

 mandible pale brown ; irides red brown. 



631. — Zosterops palpebrosus, Tern. 



Blyth, B. of B., p. 110, gives this from Tenasserim, and Ward- 

 law Ramsay is said loc. cit. to have obtained it in the Kareu Hills. 

 It has never yet been met with it in those parts of Tenasserim 

 which Davison or others collecting for me have visited. 



631 quat— Zosterops siamensis, Blyth. (12). 



Thatone ; Mooleyit ; Amherst. 



Sparingly and very locally distributed throughout the central 

 portions of the province alike in hills and plains. 



[I found a few of these birds about the mangrove swamps to 

 the south of Thatone, and again many near the top of Mooleyit. 

 In all its habits and in its voice it exactly resembles Z. palpe- 

 brosus, so common in India, like it going about in small parties 

 hunting for insects among the foliage. I found it avoided the 

 dense forest, and kept along the outskirts, and especially among 

 the stunted clumps of trees dotted about the grassy lands near 

 the top of Mooleyit.— W. £>.] 



The following are dimensions, &c, recorded in the flesh :— 



Males. — Length, 4'25 to 4'5 ; expanse, 6'5 to 6 - 7 ; tail from 

 vent, 1*4 to 1-6; wing, 2 05 to 2-15; tarsus, 05 to 0-6; bill 

 from gape, 0'5 to 0*55 ; weight, 0*25 to 0*3 oz. 



Females. — Length, 4*3 to 4-5 ; expanse, 6"8 ; tail from vent, 

 1*4 to 1*5; wing, 2-15 to 2-2; tarsus, 0*6; bill from gape, - 5 

 to 0'55 ; weight, - 3 oz. 



Legs, feet, and claws pale plumbeous, sometimes greenish 

 plumbeous ; upper mandible and lower mandible from tip to 

 angle of gonys black ; rest of lower mandible pale plumbeous ; 

 irides pale brown to pale yellowish or ochre brown. 



This species is so close to Zosterops palpebrosus that it perhaps 

 scarcely needs a detailed description. 



The upper surface is generally a shade yellower, and the whole 

 of the breast, abdomen, &c, which are grej'ish white in palpe- 

 brosus, are in this species clear yellow, like the throat, shaded 

 however in females and younger birds with olive green on the 

 sides of the body, breast and flanks. 



In perfect plumage the whole upper surface is a moderately 

 bright yellow, with a slight olivaceous tinge on crown and back; 

 younger birds are more decidedly green ; the entire lower sur- 

 face bright yellow, a little shaded with olivaceous on the sides 

 and flanks. Generally the ear-coverts and sides of the head and 

 neck are colored like the nape ; sometimes, however, the sides of 



