WHITE-EYE. 
Adult male. Entire top of head, sides of face, nape, hind-neck, rump, upper tail-coverts, 
upper wing-coverts, including the primary-coverts and outer margins of the flight- 
quills greenish-yellow; mantle, upper back, and sides of breast lead-grey, 
becoming paler on the middle of the breast and sides of the body and flanks; 
inner-webs of flight-quills blackish-brown edged with white ; bastard-wing 
blackish ; tail dark brown with whitish margins on the inner-webs, and greenish- 
yellow on the outer ones ; eye-ring white with a line of black below and in front 
of the eye, which extends along the base of the lores ; chin and throat yellow ; 
middle of abdomen inclining to whitish tinged with yellow ; thighs whitish ; under 
tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white like the inner 
margins of the flight-quills below, remainder of the quill-lining dark brown; lower 
aspect of tail greyish-brown. Total length 115 mm. ; culmen 11, wing 69, tail 50, 
tarsus 20. Figured. Collected on North-west Island, Capricorn Group, Queens¬ 
land, on the 9th of October, 1910, and is the type of Zosterops chlorocephalus. (Middle 
figure.) 
Adult female . Crown of head, sides of face, sides of neck, and hind-neck yellowish-green 
like the rump, upper tail-coverts, upper wing-coverts, and outer aspect of flight- 
quills; inner-webs of the last blackish with whitish margins ; bastard-wing and 
outer-web of first primary inclining to black ; upper back and scapulars pale lead- 
grey ; tail dark brown with pale margins to the inner-webs and yellowish-green 
to the outer ones ; lores and fore-part of eye-ring black, the hinder-portion of the 
latter white ; breast grey, becoming paler and inclining to fawn-colour on the 
abdomen and sides of the body; thighs and under tail-coverts pale lemon- 
yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white; under-surface of flight-quills 
blackish-brown with whitish margins; lower aspect of tail hair-brown. Total 
length 107 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 60, tail 40, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected 
at Mackay, North Queensland, and is the type of Zosterops lateralis cormoalli. 
(Top figure.) 
Immature seem to take on adult plumage from the nest. 
Eggs. Three to four eggs form the clutch. A clutch of four eggs taken at South Grafton, 
Clarence River, New South Wales, on the 27th of March, 1901, is of a pale bluish- 
green ground-colour. Ovals in shape ; surface of shell smooth and slightly glossy. 
15-17 mm. by 12. 
Nest. A small, neat, cup-shaped structure, composed of fine grasses, horse-hair, etc., well 
matted and fastened together with cobweb and spiders’ cocoons, and lined with fine 
grasses, and sometimes long pieces of hair from horses’ tails. It is usually placed 
in the horizontal fork of a bush or small tree, from which it is suspended by the rim, 
and placed from 4 to 15 feet or so from the ground. Dimensions over all, 24 to 
3 inches by If to 24 inches in depth ; egg cavity If to 2£ inches across by 1 to 1^ 
inches deep. 
Eggs. Two eggs appear to be the usual number laid by this species for a clutch. A pair 
taken at Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, on the 18th of November, 
1919, is of a pale bluish-green ground-colour. Rounded ovals in shape; surface 
of shell smooth, but without gloss. 15-16 mm. by 12. 
Nest. A small cup-shaped structure similar to that of Zosterops lateralis , composed 
chiefly of grasses matted together with cobw'eb, and suspended from a small forked 
twig of a bushy shrub or small tree, and placed at heights varying from four to 
twelve feet or more. 
Breeding-months . September to January or February. 
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