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tertiaries have an orange spot near the tip ; the tail has the two 

 middle feathers entirely black, the next two with half the outer and 

 one-third the inner web orange, the rest orange with a decreasing 

 quantity of black at their bases. The female is dusky ash ; the 

 wings and tail blackish, with a bright yellow taking the place of the 

 orange in the male ; the forehead is yellow-tinged, and the quills are 

 more or less margined and tipped with yellow ; bill and feet black ; 

 iris dark. 



Total length 7g inches ; wing 3-^ inches ; tail 3|^ inches ; bill, to 

 front, ^ inch. 



Hab. Lombock. 



Remark. — This elegant species differs from P. jlammeus, Temm., 

 in its larger size, orange colour, and rather different markings of 

 the wings and tail. 



ZOSTEROPS INTERMEDIA. 



Flavo-virescens, subtus Jlava ; fronte flavescente, tcenia nigra sub 

 oculis ; remiyibus rectricibusque fuscis, Jlavoviridi marginatis. 



Very near Z. jlava, but a little larger, more yellow on the forehead 

 and less on the upper tail-coverts, and the black subocular streak 

 not extending so far forward ; iris olive-brown ; feet dusky lead ; 

 upper mandible dark, lower pale. 



Total length 4^ to 4| inches ; wing 2\ inches ; bill, to gape, 

 ■h inch. 



Hab. Macassar and Lombock. 



Remark. — Mr. G. R. Gray attached the MS. name of intermedius 

 to my Macassar specimen. 



ZoSTEROPS AUREIFRONS. 



Flavo-virescens, subtus alba, lateribus albo-cinereis ; facie, gula, 

 uropygio et crisso vividejlavis ; frontis plumis densis, suberectis, 

 aureo-fulvis. 



Greenish yellow ; head yellower ; forehead golden orange ; face, 

 throat, rump, and under tail-coverts pure yellow ; beneath the 

 body white, with the sides ashy ; wings and tail dusky, feathers 

 margined with olive-yellow ; iris dark ; bill dusky lead ; feet pale 

 lead-colour. 



Total length 4| inches ; wing 2-1- inches. 



Hab. Flores. 



I give here descriptions of two other species of Zosterops which 

 appear new : — 



Zosterops atrifrons. 



Flavo-virescens, capite obscuriore, fronte nigra, pectore cinereo- 

 albo, abdomine albo, tectricibus caudce inferioribus flavis, cauda 

 fusco-nigra. 



Greenish yellow ; top of head dusky, shading into deep black on 

 the forehead and the space in front of the eye ; breast ashy white ; 



