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THE SIAMESE WHITE-EYE. 
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325. ZOSTEROPS SIAMENSIS. 
THE SIAMESE WHITE-EYE. 
Zosterops siamensis, Bl. Ibis, 1867, p. 34 ; id. B. Burm. p. Ill 5 Wald. Ibis, 1876, 
p. 350; pi. X. fig. 1 ; Htiine 8r Bav. S. F. vi. p. 375 ; Hume, 8. F. viii. p. 104 ; 
Oates, S. F. x. p. 228. Zosterops austeni, Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. Ill ; 
Hujne, S. F. v. p. 56 ; Jlu^ne Dav. S. F. vi. p. 376 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 104. 
Description. — Male and female. Lores and a small patch under the eye 
black ; a circle of feathers round the eye white ; the whole plumage 
yellow^ brightest below ; wings and tail dark brown, each feather edged 
externally with yellow, narrowly on the primaries, broadly on the secon- 
daries, and the yellow occupying nearly the whole of the tertiaries. 
Iris light reddish brown ; bill horn- colour, plumbeous at the base of the 
lower mandible and at the gape ; mouth flesh-colour ; feet and claws light 
plumbeous. 
Length 4*2 inches, tail 1*6, wing 2, tarsus "55, bill from gape "52. The 
female is a trifle smaller. 
This species differs from the preceding in having the whole lower 
plumage yellow. Z. austeni, the type of which I have examined, does not 
appear to me to differ from Z. siamensis. On the lower plumage the 
yellow is paler than usual; but this is probably due to the bird being 
young. The length of the wing in the original description is given as 
2" 6 inches ; but this is a mistake, as the bird is no larger than Z. siamensis. 
The Siamese White-eye is very abundant in Southern Pegu from 
Rangoon up to Kyeikpadein and Pegu. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay pro- 
cured it at Rangoon and also in Karennee at an elevation of 2500 feet. 
Mr. Davison met with it in Tenasserim only from Thatone down to 
Amherst and on M ooleyit mountain ; but I think it probable that its range 
in Tenasserim will be found much larger than this. 
Dr. Tiraud states that this species is very common in Cochin China ; and 
I presume that it occurs in Siam. 
This bird is found only in forests and remote orchards in high trees, to 
the tops of which it persistently keeps. Its presence is made known by 
its often repeated note, which is a low twitter. 
