S T I G MATOPS CHLORIS, Salvacl. 
Mysol Honey-eater. 
Stigma tops argentauris, pt., Salvad. Ann, Mus. Civic. Genov, xii. p. 336 (1878). 
Stigma tops chloris, Salvacl. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, xii. p. 337 (1878). — Id. op. cit. xvi. p. 76 (1880). — Id. Orn. 
Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p.325 (1881). — Shai’pe, Rep. Voy. H.M.S. e Alert/ Birds, p. 19 (1884). 
Glycyphila ocularis, pt., Gadow, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. ix. p. 213 (1884). 
Count Salvadohi separated the Honey-eater from Mysol from Stigmatops ocularis of Australia on account 
of its greener coloration and whitish auricular spot. Dr. Gadow, in treating of the last-named species, unites 
not only Stigmatops chloris but also S. subocularis to S. ocularis, stating that intermediate forms frequently 
occur. We have already had occasion to controvert this reasoning on Dr. Gadow’s part, and we do not 
hesitate to restore to these species of Stigmatops the distinct position accorded to them by Count Salvadori, 
whose work Dr. Gadow has somewhat unreasonably upset. 
S. chloris is yellowish both above and below, instead of greyish as S. ocularis, and the car-spot is whitish. 
Two specimens are in the British Museum from Mysol ; and we are indebted to the kindness of our friend 
Dr. Jentink for the loan of a specimen from the Leyden Museum, collected in Mysol by Hocdt in June 186/, 
and one of the types described by Salvadori. The following is a description of this specimen : — 
Adult male. General colour above dull greyish olive, more distinctly greyish on the neck and scapulars, 
lighter and tinged with olive-yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, the 
greater series dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the back, the median and greater coverts 
indistinctly tipped with ashy olive; bastard-wiug, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, margined 
externally with olive-yellow, brighter on the quills; tail-feathers ashy olive, with olive-yellow margins and 
blackish shafts ; crown of head like the back ; lores and sides of head above the ear-coverts somewhat more 
dusky ; cheeks pale ashy ; below the eye a patch of silvery white dots, followed by a spot of silvery white on 
the ear-coverts ; under surface of body pale ashy washed with light olive-yellow, the centre of the abdomen 
rather brighter olive-yellow; the feathers of the fore neck and breast with obsolete margins of pale olive- 
yellow, with a few mesial streaks of the same colour ; under tail-coverts pale ashy, margined with light olive- 
yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts also pale ashy with light olive-yellow margins; quills dusky below, 
ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0 •/, wing 2’75, tail *2*1, 
tarsus 075. 
The Plate represents an adult bird in two positions, the figures being drawn from the typical specimen 
lent to us by Dr. Jentink. 
[H. B. S.] 
