486 



Birds of Celebes: Zosteropidae. 



chief differences appear to be the more elongated nasal aperture and more 

 delicate bill, the periocular ring of black, and the larger size. Z. squamiceps 

 seems to us to lie about midway between this form and the typical Zosterojjs, 

 so that, if the genus Chlorocharis be allowed to stand, it becomes very difficult 

 to say to which genus Everett's new White-eye should be referred. 



f 193. ZOSTEROPS INTERMEDIA Wall. 

 Yellow White-eye. 



Zosterops intermedia (1) Wall, P. Z. S. 1863, 486, 493; (2) Hartl., J. f. 0. 1865, 16; 

 (III) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VTH, 72, pi. IX, f. 2; (4) Rosenb., Malay. Ai'cbip. 

 1878, 272 (incl. also Z cJiloris); (5) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 132; (6) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 

 n, 1881, 369; (7) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 1883, 125; (8) Sharpe, Cat. B. IX (gen. 

 Zosterops] 1884, 185; (9) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 555; (10) Biittik., Zool. Erg. 

 Weber's Reise Ost-Ind. 1893, m, 279; (11) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIV, 

 341; (12) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, pp. 12, 16; (13) Hart, Nov. 

 Zool. 1896, 153, 168, 557, 567, 594; (14) id., ib. 1897, 157, 161. 



a. Zosterops brunneicauda (1) Guillem. (nee Salvad. fide Hart.), P. Z. S. 1885, 508. 



For further references cf. Salvadori 6, Sharpe 8. 



Figure and descriptions. Walden ///; Wallace 1; Hartlaub 2; Salvadori 6; Sharpe 8. 



Male. Above yellow olive-green, yellowest on head and tail-coverts; bastard-wing, quills 

 and tail-feathers dusky brown, the quills edged with the colour of the back but 

 yellower, greyish towards the distal ends of the primaries; lores and forehead 

 next base of bill yellow; orbital ring white; below this a suborbital streak 

 blackish; chin and throat lemon-yellow; remaining under-parts less jmre yellow, 

 washed on sides of breast, sides and flanks with oHve; thighs sulphiu'-yellow; under 

 wing-coverts straw-yellow, metacarpal edge darker, inner edges of quills 

 below yellowish white (cT, Macassar, Jan. 1873: Meyer — C 453). 



BUI grey, bbush below; feet and claws greyish blue (M. 5); Ii-is obve-brown or 

 sepia (Wallace 1, P.&F. S., etc). 



Female. An adult female (g, Macassar, Jan. 1873 — C 493) is Idve the specimen described, 

 but yellower olive-green above, the yellow on the lores and forehead a little more 

 extended, the chin and throat similar lemon-yellow, the other under-parts purer 

 sulphiu-yellow than in the iii-st. It is possible that that specimen and another nearly 

 similar male in the Dresden Museum (C 452) are not quite fully adult. 



Young. Like the adult, but darker above, greyish in tint on the hind neck; cliin, thi-oat 

 and abdomen and under tail-covei'ts pale sulphui-yellow, the sides pale olive-grey, 

 yellower on the flanks ($ juv. Macassar, Jan. 1873: Meyer — C 451). 



Measurements. 



a. (0 453) cT, Macassar, I. 73 



b. (C 452) cf , Macassar, I. 73 



c. (0 493) Q ad. Macassar, I. 73 



d. (C451) 9 juv. Macassar, 1.73 



e. (SarasinCoU.)a'ad.Sosso, S.W.Centr.Cel., ll.Vm.95 

 /. (Sarasin Coll.) cf juv. Macassar, 18. VI. 95. . . . 

 g. (Sarasin Coll.) cf ad. Bonerate Id., 30. XII. 94 . . 

 h. (C 15171) cT ad. Lombok, 1500—2000 ft., May 96 (Ev.) 



Tarsus 



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19.5 

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6.5 



7.5 



7.75 



