Order PASSERIFORMES. Family ZOSTEROPIDM. 
No. 625. 
ZOSTEROPS ALBIVENTRIS. 
PALE-BELLI ED WHITE-EYE. 
(Plate 506.) 
Zosterops albiventris Reichenbach, “ Handb. Merop.,” i.e., Handb. Spec. Omith., Abth. 
II., p. 92 (leones Synops. Avium Cont., IX., March 1st, 1852), 1852 : “ Oceanien,” 
based on Hombr. & Jacq., Voy. Pdle Sud, pi. 19, f. 3, i.e., 
Zosterops a ventre blanc Hombron and Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, plate 19, f. 3, Oct. 1844. 
Zosterops albiventris Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Ornitli., Abth II., p. 92, 1852 ; Pucheran, 
Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., Vol. III., p. 95, 1853 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Vol. IX., p. 164, 
1884 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 38, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 351, 1901 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. II., p. 213, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 89, 
190S ; id ., List Birds Austr., p. 253, 1913 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 175, 
1914 (N.Q.); id., /&., Vol. XVH., p. 203, 1918 (N.Q.). 
Zosterops flavogularis Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 56, Feb. 1876 : Islands 
off Cape Grenville, North Queensland ; Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 191, 1878 ; North, 
ib,y Ser. 2, Vol, II,, p. 408, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 14, 1888. 
Zosterops albiventris albiventris Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 384, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 253, 1913. 
Zosterops albiventris cairncrossi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 62, 
April 7th, 1916; Caimcross Island, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland. (Never on the mainland.) 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface greenish-yellow, including the top of the 
head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 
scapulars, upper wing-coverts, and outer margins of flight-quills ; outer edge of 
bastard-wing dark brown ; inner webs of flight-quills liair-brown with pale margins ; 
tail dark brown with pale edgings on the inner webs and fringed with greenish- 
yellow on the outer ones ; eye-ring whitish ; lores and feathers in front of the eye 
black; chin and throat bright lemon-yellow ; breast, abdomen, and sides of body 
cream-white ; under tail-coverts pale lemon-yellow ; axillaries and under wing- 
coverts white tinged with yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills greyish-brown 
with white margins ; lower aspect of tail similar but paler. Eyes silvery-brown, 
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