434 NOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAE XXVII. 1920. 



discoloured specimens of Z. chloris. Our specimens collected at Tambora 

 (Doherty) and Bima (Everett) are very closely allied to Z. intermedia intermedia 

 from South Celebes, but their wings are 2 to 3 mm, longer, the bills larger. This 

 is therefore a very close subspecies of intermedia ; but it is quite possible that 

 a complete monographic study of the genus will lead to the grouping of even 

 intermedia as a subspecies of another previously named species. 



392. Zosterops intermedia periplecta Hart., subsp. nov. 



Eight specimens of this Zosterops — three from Everett, five from Doherty — 

 are underneath paler and on the upperside a little more olivaceous green, less 

 golden than Z. i. intermedia and Z. i. sumbavensis, while the bills are at least as 

 strong as in the latter, and the wings fully as long and sometimes even 1 or 2 mm. 

 longer. 



Type : ^ ad., Lombok, 1,500 feet, May 1896. Alfred Everett leg. 



393. Zosterops unica Hart. = Zosterops unica. 

 Zosterops unica Hartert, Nov. Zool. iv. p. 520 (1897 — Nanga Bamau). 



Type : adult (sex ?), Nanga Ramau, S. Flores, October 1896. Alfred 

 Everett leg. 



I have so far never seen a second specimen. It might be looked upon as a 

 subspecies of Z. intermedia, but in a genus like Zosterops characters like the 

 bright-yellow rump patch, black tail, smaller size, and apparently deep black 

 biU suggest a separate species. 



394. Zosterops flavissima Hart. = Zosterops flavissima. 



Zosterops flavissima Hartert, Nov. Zool. x. p. 29 (1903 — Tukang Besi Islands). 



Type : (J ad., Binungku, Tukang Besi Islands, 9.xii.l901. Heinrich Kiihn 

 leg. No. 4,^15. 



395. Zosterops obstinatus Hart. = Zosterops obstinatus obstinatus. 

 Zosterops obstinatus Hartert, Nov. Zool. vii. p. 238 (1900 — Eatjan). 



Type : ? ad., Batjan, 4,000 feet, September 1897. Will. Doherty leg. 



396. Zosterops obstinatus tematanus Stres. = Zosterops obstinatus ternatanus. 

 Zosterops obstirwivs ternatanus Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xxi. p. 139 (1914 — Ternate). 



Type : ? ad., Ternate, 3—4,000 feet, September 1896. William Doherty leg. 



397. Zosterops obstinatus seranensis Stres. = Zosterops obstinatus seranensis. 

 Zosterops obstinatus seranensis Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xxt. p. 139 (1914 — Seran). 



Type : «? ad., Gunong Pinaia, Ceram (Seran), 6,000 feet, 15 . viii .1911. Erwin 

 Stresemann leg. No. 878. 



(In Stresemann's article on the birds of Ceram, Novitates Zoologicae, 

 1914, no mention is made of Zosterops tudjuensis Oort, Notes Leyden Mus. xxxiv. 



