ZOSTEROPS 
U EM) OWE, Tristr. 
Kendo va White- eye. 
Tephras olivacea, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vi. p. 180 (1881, nec Zosterops olivacea (L.)). 
Zosterops ramsayi, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, xviii. p. 425 (nec Masters). 
Zosterops rendova, Tristram, Ibis, 1882, p. 135 —Salvad. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, iii. p. 540 (1882).— 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii. p. 4 2 (1883). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. ix. p. 188 
(1884). 
The genus Zosterops contains several species winch have not the white eyelid upon which the trivial name 
of “ White-eye ” is founded, and the present bird belongs to the section in which this peculiar character is 
not developed. All such species are at least snbgenerically distinct from Zosterops, and in that case the 
genus Tephras might well he employed, as has been done by Mr. Ramsay in the present instance. 
The original specimen was procured by Lieut. Richards in the Island of Rendova in the Solomon 
Archipelago, and was described by Mr. Ramsay as Tephras olivacea. Count Salvadori, considering that 
Tephras was congeneric with Zosterops, gave to the Rendova species the name of Zosterops ramsayi, as there 
was already a Zosterops olivacea of Linnaeus, from the Island of Reunion. Mr. Masters had, however, 
previously bestowed Mr. Ramsay’s name on a species of the genus, and therefore the bird must be called 
Zosterops removes, which title was given to the identical specimen procured by Lieut. Richards when it 
came into Canon Tristram’s hands in England, and the latter author recognized at the same time that the 
name Z. olivacea was pre-occupied in ornithology. 
We have copied the description of the type specimen given in our ‘ Catalogue of Birds’ : — 
“General colour above uniform olive-yellow, a little brighter across the rump; wing-coverts like the back, 
a little yellower on the median and greater coverts ; bastard-wing feathers: dusky, washed with olive ; 
primary-coverts and quills blackish, externally ^live-yellow, brighter on the edge of the primaries; upper 
tail-coverts olive-yellow ; tail-feathers blackish, washed with olive-green near the base ; crown of head and 
lores like the hack ; no ring of white feathers round the eye ; in front of the eye a dusky spot; ear-coverts, 
cheeks, and throat olive-yellow, scarcely brighter than the upper surface ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen 
bright yellow, greener on the sides of the body and flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; 
under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed with bright yellow; quills below dusky; inner edge of 
quills ashy white tinged with yellow. Total length 4-6 inches, culmen L65, wing 2‘55, tail L8, tarsus 0 /.” 
The Plate gives two representations of this species, of the natural size, the figures being drawn from the 
typical example lent to us by Canon Tristram. 
[R. B. 8.] 
