61 [Vol. xiv. 



P. cumanensis in the Museum seemed to indicate that 

 the characters put forward by Mr. Hellmayr were not of 

 specific value.] 



" Copurus funebris, Cab. & Heine. 



" This species, regarded by Dr. Sclater as the young of 

 C. colonus, is evidently quite a distinct one, and differs from 

 the latter in the entire absence of white in its plumage and 

 by the form of the tail. Whereas in C. colonus the central 

 pair of the tail-feathers are much narrowed and enormously 

 elongated, in the present bird they are quite as broad as the 

 other rectrices, and are only about 10 mm. longer than the 

 shortest pair. The bill is of nearly the same shape, but 

 decidedly broader at the base and more conspicuously ridged. 

 The whole plumage is of a uniform dull black. Young speci- 

 mens of C. colonus, without the long middle tail-feathers, have 

 the white rump-band and the crown mixed with whitish 

 and black. The specimen exhibited was collected by Mr. 

 Alphonse Robert at Piquete, S. Paulo, in Southern Brazil, 

 and is, as far as I know, the second on record." 



Mr. Ernst Hartert exhibited a new Zoster ops, which he 

 described as follows : — 



ZoSTEROPS LUTEIROSTIIIS, n. Sp. 



Zosterops supra luteo-viridis, fronte usque ad oculos, loris, 

 linea suboculari nigris ; annulo periophthalmico angusto 

 albo; remigibus fuscis, marginibus exterioribus, secun- 

 dariisque intimis dorso concoloribus, marginibus interi- 

 oribus fiavescenti-albis ; rectricibus fuscis, ad basin 

 luteo-viridi marginatis ; subtus aureo-flava, corporis 

 lateribus paullo viridi-lavatis, subalaribus albido-fiavis ; 

 rostro pedibusque stramineis, iridibus rubris. Al. 59-61, 

 caud. 39-396, rostr. 14, metatars. 17-18 mm. ? mari 

 simillima, sed supra virescentior, subtus magis sul- 

 phurea. 

 Hab. Insula Salomonis Gizo dicta. 



Typus : No. A 724, g ad., 2. xi. 1902 {A. S. Meek Coll.). 

 Differt ab Z. hypoxantha annulo periophthalmico albo, 



colore nigro capitis magis restricto, necnon rostro pedibusque 



stramineis, a Z. fuscicapilla colore aureo-fiavo abdominali, 



rostro pedibusque stramineis. 



