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below marcined with white, or ashy wliite; tlic throat, ehest, 

 sides, and Hanks washed with li^lit ashy-brown, becoming almost 

 white on the abdomeu, and uuder tail - coverts ; bill and legs 

 bhick. 



There is no trace of white round the eye, tlie bill is long and 

 pointed; the tail not rounded; the first and sixth primary quills 

 are equal, and the third is equal in Icngth to the lourth. 



Total length (skin) 4,G inches; wing 2,7; tail 1,93; tarsus 0,77. 

 Bill from tbrehcad 0,6. 



Hab. : Solomon Islands. 



377 a. Tep liras Wh ite i. 



E. P. Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1882. p. 357. 



All the Upper surface duU brown washed with olive-yellow, 

 tiuged with brown on the liead; brighter on the rump and 

 Upper tail-coverts , and on the outer margins of the webs of the 

 wiug- and tail-feathers; the wiugs and tail brown above and 

 below; axillaries and under wing-coverts whitish, inner margin 

 of the webs of the quills towards the base whitish ; shafts of the 

 wing- and tail-feathers below white, above brown; all the under 

 surface of the body, ehin, margins of Shoulders below, and the 

 under tail-coverts citron-yellow, deeper in tint on the ehest, breast, 

 and under tail-coverts; bill brown, whitish on the lower margin 

 and on the under raaudible; no ring round the eye; ear-coverts 

 and sides of the face like the head. The flank-plumes are rather 

 elongated and somewhat decomposed. 



Lg. 3,7 inches; wing 2,5; tail 1,9; tars. 0,7; bill from fore- 

 head 0,5 ; from anterior margin of nasal groove 0,3 ; from gape 0,6. 



Hab.: Aru Islands? 



378. Zosterops delicatula. 



R. B. Sharp e, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. Vol. 16. 1882. p. 318. 

 Affinis Z. frontall, sed genis anticis cum loris et sincipite nigris, 

 et praecipue pectore lateribusque delicate cinereo distinguenda. 

 Long. tot. 3,8 ; alae 2,3; caudae 1,55; tarsi 0,65. 

 Hab. : S. E. New Guinea. 



379. Zosterofs hypoxantha. 



T. Salvadori, Atti E. Ac. Soc. Torino. Vol. 16. 29. Mai 

 1881. p. 623. _ 



Superne viridi-olivacea, uropygium versus flavicantior; pileo, 

 loris capitisque lateribus fuliginoso nigris, auricularibus brunes- 

 centibus ; annulo periophthalmico albo ; gastraeo laete flavo ; late- 

 ribus paullum olivascentibus; remigibus fusco-nigris, exterius viridi- 

 olivaceo marginatis, intus albido marginatis; subalaribus albidis, 

 flavido tinctis ; rectricibus fusco-nigris ; rostro fusco ; pedibus cine- 

 reis; iride brunnea. 



Lg. tot. 0,100; al. 0,057; caud. 0,036; rostri 0,011; tarsi 

 0,016 m. 



Hab.: Nova Britannia. 



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