ZOSTEEOPS. 631 



Herpornis xantholeuca, Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 83 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 41. 



a. 5 Nampoung-, 1 9th February 1875. 



b. ? Shitee Mt., Kakhyen hills, 20th February 1875. 



Yamily—ZOSTEH OFID^, 



Genus Zosterops, Vigors. 

 112. ZosTEROPS PALPEBEOSA, Temminck. 



St/lvia palpebrosa, Temm., PI. Col., 293, fig. 3, 1824. 



Zosferops maderaspatensis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., xi, p. 7, 1840. 



Zoster ops palpelrosus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xv, p. 44, 1846; Hutton, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xvii, p. 690, 1848; Gray, Gen. B., i, p. 198, 1848; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, 

 Bengal, p. 220, 1849; Bonap. Consp. G. Av., p. 398, 1850; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 265, 

 1863; Horsfield & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 263, 1854; Hartl., Journ. f. Orn., 1865^ 

 p. 14; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxvii, 1868, p. 51; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, 

 p. 162, 1869; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. xxxix, 1870, p. 109; Holdsw., 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, p. 458, pi. xx, fig. 1; Adam., Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 384; Ball, t. c, 

 p. 74; Cock. & Marsh., t. c, p. 356; Ball, op. cit, 1874, p. 417; Hume, t. c, p. 479; id., 

 op. cit, 1875, p. 143; Brooks, t. c, p. 252; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xliv, 1875, ex. '^o., p. 110; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 37; pp. 291, 463; Fairbank, 

 t. c, p. 266; Fairbank, op. cit, 1877, p. 401. 



a. ? Momien, July 1868. 



In bushes on the grassy hill sides. 



Jerdon describes the belly as bluish- white, which it is in some specimens, but 

 in others it has a decided buff tinge. The centre of the belly is always paler than 

 the sides. The black lores are always more or less developed, but in Temminck's 

 figure there is only a faint trace of black in that region. A bird from Central India 

 agrees exactly with Temminck's figure, but it is a young male, while in others, 

 apparently adults, from the same locality, the lores are prominently black. In a 

 bird from Ootacamund on the Nilgiris, with a longer and every way larger bill 

 than the ordinary run of Indian birds, the lores are jet black, and better defined 

 than in any of the others. The sides of the body and flanks are ashy-grey, and 

 the middle of the belly albescent ; but I have seen small-billed specimens, undoubted 

 Z. palpebrosus, with the same colour on the abdomen ; indeed the tints vary much 

 on these parts. This long-billed individual can be connected to true Z. palpebrosus 

 by a gradation, not only of bill measurements, but also of dorsal and loreal tints. 



113. ZosTEROPS SIMPLEX, Swinhoe. 



Zosferops simplex, Swinhoe, Proc Zool. Soc, 1862, p. 317, 1863, p. 203; id., I))is, 1863, p. 294, 

 1866, p. 171, 1870, p. 348; Gray, Handl. B., i, p. 163, 1869; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soe.^ 

 1871, p. 349; Gould, B. Asia, pt. xxiii, 1871. 



a. Ponsee, 2nd May 1868. • 



