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387. Zosterops superciliosa Rchw. = Zosterops senegalensis superciliosa. 

 Zosterops snperdKosa Reichenow, Joum. f. Orn. 1892. p. J92 (Kiri and Fadjulli). 



Type or Cotype : (J ad., Fadjulli. Emin Pasha leg. (Purchased from 

 Hartlaub.) 



Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1904, p. Ill, says that only two specimens, one 

 in the British, one in the Tring Museum, existed, and he marked ours from Fadjulli 

 as the type. Probably Reichenow borrowed this from Hartlaub before it came 

 to Tring, and it was the only one he had seen at the time. Should he have 

 examined the British Museum specimen as well, ours would be the cotype. 

 Reichenow did not, and does not nowadays, quote the exact date and number, 

 etc., of type specimens. 



388. Zosterops kaffensis Neum. = Zosterops virens kaffensis. 



Zosterops kaffensis Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1902. p. 10 (KafEa) ; Zosterops virens kaffensis id., 

 Joum. f. Orn. 1906. p. 243. 



Type: (J ad., Anderatscha, KafEa, ll.iii.l901. Oscar Neumann leg. 

 No. 994. 



389. Zosterops schoana Neum. = Zosterops virens schoana. 



Zosterops schoana Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1903. p. 185 (Sohoa). 

 Zosterops virens schoana id., Joum. f. Om. 1906. p. 242. 



Type: $ ad., Abuje, province of Gindcherat, Schoa, 3.x. 1900. Oscar 

 Neumann leg. No. 134. 



390. Zosterops westemensis vegeta Hart. = Zosterops lateralis vegeta. 

 Zosterops westemensis vegeta Hartert, Nov. Zool. vi. p. 425 (1899 — Cape York, N. Queensland). 



Type: ^ ad., Cape York, 15.vii.l898. Eichhom leg. (No. 1,941 of the 

 Meek collections.) 



(Mathews, in his latest List of the Birds of Australia, makes vegeta a synonym 

 of Zosterops lateralis ramsayi. \Zosterops ramsayi Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N. S. Wales, i. p. 56, 1875, from " Pabn Island " in Torres Strait.] When I named 

 vegeta I was not acquainted with Masters's description, but it does not suit my 

 vegeta. The middle of the abdomen is whitish and not " light grey," and the 

 wing measures 56-57, and not over 60 mm. [" 2-4 inches "]. The suggestion that 

 vegeta is ramsayi therefore cannot be accepted and must remain doubtful until 

 specimens from " Palm Island " have been examined. Where " Palm Island " 

 is I do not know, nor does Mathews {in litt.), as neither our maps nor the Pacific 

 Ocean Directory give it. 



391. Zosterops sumbavensis GuiU. = Zosterops intermedia sumbavensis. 

 Zosterops sumbavensis Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1885. p. 508 (Sumbawa). 



Cotype : "$ ?," Bima, Sumbawa, 14.viii.l883, specimen h. R. £E. Powell 

 leg. (Guillemard Collection, made during the voyage of the yacht Marchesa.) 



It is evident that the two specimens, a and h, are both discoloured, the 

 brownish golden coloration not beiiig the natural one. We have similarly 



