Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 624. 
Family ZOSTEROPIBM. 
ZOSTEROPS AUSTRALASI/E. 
GREEN-BACKED WHITE-EYE. 
(Plate 506.) 
Sylvia Australasia Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XI., p. 235, June 
21st, 1817 : King George’s Sound, South-west Australia. 
Sylvia australasice Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XI., p. 235, June 21st, 1817. 
Zosterops chloronotus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 165, July 1841: West 
Australia=Pertb(?); Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xi. (Vol. IV., pi. 82), June 1st, 1843. 
Not Dicaeum chloronotus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. IX., p. 408,1817, which is a 
species of Zosterops. 
Zosterops gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 398, 1850 (before Feb. 1851): 
new name for Z. cbloronotus Gould; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 588, 
1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 162, 1884; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 38, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 350, 1901 ; Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 73, p. 172, 1902-3; id., ib., Vol. III., 
p. 18, 1903; Carter, ib., p. 91, 1903; H. E. Hill, id., p. 227, 1904; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 212, 1904; Lawson, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 131, 1905; 
Gibson, ib., Vol. VIII., p. 66, 1908; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 89, 1908; 
Cleland, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 223, 1910 (Food); Mathews, List Birds Austral., p. 253, 
1913 ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 79, 1913; Alexander, ib., Vol. 
XVI., p. 33, 1916; Carter, Ibis, 1917, p. 608; Campbell, Emu, Vol. XVIII., p. 263, 
1919; S. A. White, ib., Vol. XX., p. 128, 1921; Ashby, ib., p. 135; Mellor, ib., 
p. 139 ; Alexander, ib., p. 167 ; Whitlock, ib., p. 186. 
Zosterops shortridgii Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1909, p. 663 (Oct. No., reed. B.M.Nov. 27th, 1909): 
Rabbit Island, Albany, South-west Australia; Whitlock, Emu, Vol. X., p. 317, 
1911. 
Zosterops lateralis gouldi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 386, 1912. 
Zosterops goiddi warreni Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, April 7th, 
1916 : Warren River, South-west Australia. 
Zosterops australasice Mathews, ib., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 36, 1923. 
Zosterops australasice edwini Mathews, ib., Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 36, Feb. 21st, 1923: 
Carnarvon, Mid-west Australia. 
Zosterops australasice australasice Mathews, ib., 1923. 
Distribution. South-west Australia. 
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