234 ZOSTEROPINJB. 



times taken the eggs of Ghalcites hasalis from nests of the above 

 species. 



Hob. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson B,iver, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Ramsay.) 



ZOSTEROPS WESTERISTENSIS, Quoy et Gaima/rd. 

 Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. de l' Astrolabe, p. 215, pi. 11, fig. 4. 



This species differs from Z. ccerulescens only in having the throat 

 wax-yellow and the flanks not being so deeply tinged with rich 

 buff or chestnut-brown. At Manly I have shot the two species 

 in company with each other. The nest and eggs so closely 

 resemble those of the above species that a second description is 

 hardly required, some eggs are slightly more pointed than others, 

 but are of the same pale blue or bluish-green tint ;, an average 

 set measures, length (A) 0-66 x 047 inch; (B) 0-66 x 0-47 inch; 

 (C) 0-66 X 0-48 inch. 



Sab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. {Bamsay.) 



ZOSTEROPS GOULDI, Bonaparte. 

 Green-backed Zosterops. 

 Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust, Vol i. sp. 381, p. 568. 



Gilbert writes as follows of this species : — " The Zosterops gouldi 

 is an inhabitant of the western coast of Australia, where it 

 constitutes a beautiful representative of the Z. ccerulescens of the 

 southern and eastern coasts, The breeding season commences in 

 August and ends in November ; those nests that came under my 

 observation during the earlier part of the season, invariably 

 contained two eggs ; but in October and November I usually 

 found the number to be increased to three, and upon one occasion 



