WHITE-EYE. 
This leaves us at the following position : 
Zoslerops lateralis lateralis (Latham). 
New South Wales, (?) Victoria, (?) South 
Australia. 
Zoslerops lateralis tasmanica Mathews. 
Tasmania, (?) Flinders Island. 
Zosterops lateralis investigator subsp. nov. 
New Zealand. 
The New Zealand form is credited with arriving from Australia and 
spreading all over New Zealand. When Iredale and I drew up the Reference 
List of the Birds of New Zealand we noted that all the New Zealand birds 
were like Tasmanian ones and used the name of the Tasmanian subspecies. 
The green of the head is becoming more restricted, the grey on the back less, 
the flanks darker, the breast paler, the black lores more pronounced, the 
throat scarcely tinged with yellow, the bill longer. Whether these changes 
have taken place in the last sixty years or not I cannot say, but it is necessary 
to provide a name to attract attention to the fact that, according to the birds 
examined, a distinct form appears to be evolving. As above noted, only 
one stage of plumage has been seen, as yet, from New Zealand, viz., the so- 
called winter plumage. 
All the rest of the Eastern White-eyes, as I now separate Z. gouldi the 
Western form as specifically distinct, are referable to the yellow green-throated 
series, of which I conclude the oldest name is Z. dorsalis, and hence I allow: 
Zosterops dorsalis dorsalis Vigors and Horsfield. 
New South Wales, (?) South Queensland 
(Mainland). 
Zosterops dorsalis westernensis (Quoy and Gaimard). 
Victoria, South Australia. 
Zosterops dorsalis halmaturina A. G. Campbell. 
Kangaroo Island. 
I am leaving this here until the matter of plumage changes is settled, 
as well as nature of South Australian mainland birds. 
Captain S. A. White, reporting upon the Birds of Mallacoota, Victoria, 
has written: “ Very plentiful. They were breeding in many localities. 
Several nests containing eggs were seen, and the eggs appeared to be a little 
larger than the average of those of the South Australian bird. On comparing 
the birds I find that the specimens from Mallacoota approach much more 
closely the Kangaroo Island bud (Z. halmaturina) than the mainland birds, 
the grey of the back and the yellow of the throat and head being much more 
pronounced than it is in either the South Australian or Bass Strait island birds.” 
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