SITTID/E. — ZOSTERGPID.*:. 
Sitta azurea Less, Blue Nuthatch. 
SitU azurea azurea Less. 
Sitta azurea Lessou, Traite d'Oru. 1830, p. 316: Java (Hart., 1914; 
restr . East Java , ML Ardjuno, Rob. and Kloss, 1919). 
Dendrophila flavipes Swains., Anim. in Menag. 1S37, p, 323 : India, 
error = Java. 1 * 3 
Dendrophila gymnopkrys Reichnb,, Handb. Scans. 1853, p. 154: Java. 
Dis tr. —Java (east). 
Sitta azurea nigriventer (Rob. and Kloss). 
Poliositta azurea nigriventer Robinson and Kloss, Bull. Brit. Ora, 
CL xl, 1919, p. 17 : Mt. Cede, West Java, 
Distr . — Java (west). 
Sitta azurea expectata (Hart.). 
Callisitta azurea expectata Hartert, Bull. Brit. Ora. CL, xxxv, 
1914, p, 34 ; Pahang, Malay States. 
Distr. — Malay States, 
Sumatra. 
Family ZOSTEEOPILLE.’ 
Genus ZOSTER OPS Vigors and Horsfield.' 
Zosterops palpebrosa (Temm.). 4 White-eye. 
(Zoster ops palpebrosa palpebrosa (Temm.). 
Sylvia palpebrosa Temtnmck, PL Col, 293, fig. 3, 1824 : India, 
Distr. — Extra-limitai. ] 
Zosterops palpebrosa wiUiamsoni Rob. and Kloss. 5 
Z os t crops palpebrosa wiUiamsoni Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Nat. 
Hist. Soc, Siam, iii, 1919, p. 445 : Meklong, Central Siam. 
Distr.' — Malay Peninsula (lowlands). 
Rhio Archipelago. 
1 Mathews, 1930, restricts the type locality to Timor, but the species 
seems not to occur there. 
3 Revision: Stres., Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl. xvii, 1931, p. 201. 
3 In addition to the species listed Zosterops japonica simplex Swinh., 
occurs on Singapore Island : we have handled locally shot specimens in the 
flesh and have also seen it in the Botanic Gardens. We regard these^ birds 
as introduced specimens. The species is Imported in large numbers. 
4 There seems no reason why the Malaysian forms of Zosterops , variously 
referred to the “species" palpebrosa and aureiventer should not be grouped 
in a species. Broadly speaking, the grey -bellied “aureiventer” birds are 
mountain forms, whereas the pale-beilied palpebrosa forms live in the 
lowlands. 
i It is just possible that birds from the south of the Malay Peninsula 
should be separated from true wiUiamsoni. 
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