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18. Myzomela sclateri Forbes. Palakuru Island, off New 
Britain. 
19. Myzomela sanguinolenta Creeper. Australia. 
20. Myzomela nigra Gould. Greater part of Australia. 
21. Myzomela pectoralis Gould. North Australia. 
22. Myzomela obscura Gould. North Australia and opposite 
parts of New Guinea. 
23. Myzomela pulcherrima Ramsay. Solomon Islands, Ugi. 
24. Myzomela cardinalis Gmel. New Hebrides. 
25. Myzomela caledonica Forbes. New Hebrides to New 
Caledonia. 
26. Myzomela jugularis Peale. Fiji Islands. 
27. Myzomela nigriventris Peale. Samoa Islands. 
28. Myzomela rubrata Less. Caroline Islands. 
29. Myzomela chermesina Gray. Caroline Islands, Ponapé 
Island, New Hebrides, Rotumah (north of Fiji). 
` Myzomela has a very extensive distribution, reaching from 
Celebes over the Moluccas, Papuan Islands, New Guinea to 
Australia. From New Britain and New Ireland (Bismarck 
Archipelago) to the Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New 
Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa Islands, Rotumah, Carolines. 
Of the 29 species, 21 are restricted to special localities. 
Here we have again the peculiar differentiation, which can 
only be explained by former land connection. 
Subfamily Zosteropine. 
Genus Zosterops Vigors & Horsfield,* 1827. 
The genus Zosterops has the most remarkable geographical 
distribution. Range: All over Africa south of the Sahara ; 
Island of St. Thomas and Prince’s Island in the Bight of Be- 
- nin, W. Africa ; Socotra ; Madagascar ; the Mascarene Islands ; 
Comoro; Glorioso; Seychelles Islands; entire Indian penin- 
sula and Ceylon; Burmese countries ; the whole of China, ex- 
tending into Amoor Land; Japan; Formosa; Hainan; 
Malay peninsula; all the Indo-Malayan islands; Moluccas; 
New Guinea and adjacent Papuan Islands; throughout the 
“ Gadow, 1. c., p. 146--203. 
