ZOSTEROPS UROPYGIALIS, Salvad. 
Ke-Island White-eye. 
Zosterops uropygialis , Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, vi. p. 78 (1874). — Id. op. cit. xiv. p. 655 (1879) — Id. op. 
cit. xvi. p. 82 (1880). — Id. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p. 373 (1881). — Sharpe, Cat.. Birds in 
Brit. Mus. ix. p. 190 (1884). 
Dr. Beccari discovered this species of Zosterops in Little Ke Island in 1873, and the type is in the Civic 
Museum at Genoa. We have seen several examples in the Leiden Museum, and one of these was presented 
to the British Museum by our friend Dr. Jentink, the Director of the Rijks Museum at Leiden. This 
White-eye belongs to the section of the genus with the under parts entirely yellow, and has been separated 
by Count Salvadori under a sub-section characterized by the brownish colour of the quills and tail. Since 
personally examining specimens of the species, we are somewhat inclined to doubt the importance of this 
colour of the wings and tail-feathers, as to all appearances the fresh-moulted feathers of the White-eyes are 
always much darker than those which have been well worn. 
In the specimen originally obtained by Beccari the white eye-ring, which is the chief character of a 
Zosterops , was wanting ; and as it is not present in the specimens at Leiden, its absence is doubtless 
characteristic of the species. The other characters which distinguish it are the dusky head and yellow 
rump, the latter contrasting with the yellowish-green back. 
The following is a translation of Salvador's original description : — 
“ Above yellowish green, the head tinged with dusky ; the rump yellowish ; entire under surface of body 
yellow, the under tail-coverts and throat brighter ; quills and tail-feathers dusky, margined with the same 
colour as the back, the former margined internally with yellowish white; under wing-coverts mixed yellow 
and ashy; bill dusky ; feet lead-colour. Total length 4'4 inches, wing 25, tail T8, bill 05, tarsus 065.’' 
The Plate represents an adult bird in two positions, and is drawn from a specimen presented to the 
British Museum by the Leiden Museum. 
[R, B. 8.] 
