YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 
Zosterops lutea balstoni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 384, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 254, 1913 ; Montague, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1914, p. 635. 
Zosterops lutea hecla Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 48, April 2nd, 1912 : 
Hecla Island, Parry Harbour, North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 254, 
1913. 
Zosterops lutea headlandi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. V., pts. 2-3, p. 36, Peb. 21st, 
1923 : Point Headland, Mid-west Australia. 
Distribution. Tropical Australia from Carnarvon, Mid-west Australia, through North¬ 
west Australia and Northern Territory to Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface olive-yellow, including the top of the 
head, sides of face, nape, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, rump, scapulars, upper 
wing-coverts, and outer aspect of flight-quills ; bastard-wing and outer web of 
first primary dark hair-brown like the inner webs of the flight-quills, which are 
margined with white ; upper tail-coverts somewhat paler than the back ; tail also 
hair-brown slightly edged with yellowish-green on the outer webs and whitish 
on the inner ones ; lores and base of fore-head tinged with orange-yellow ; eye¬ 
ring white, except on the front portion where the feathers are black with hair-like 
tips ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts bright yellow— 
inclining to orange-yellow on the flanks ; imder wing-coverts white, more or less 
tinged with yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills hair-brown with pale margins ; 
lower aspect of tail also hair-brown but paler. Eyes light brown, upper mandible 
and tip of lower black, lower base blue-slate. Total length 120 mm. ; culmen 
9, wing 58, tail 41, tarsus 18. Figured. Collected on Hecla Island, North-west 
Australia, on the 14th of November, 1909, and is the type of Zosterops lutea hecla. 
Adult jemale. Differs in having the back greenish and the under-surface not so yellowish. 
Adult. General colour of the upper-surface olive-green, 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 aspect of the flight-quills, the inner webs of the 
last blackish with white margins ; outer margins of bastard-wing inclining to 
black; tail dark brown with pale edgings on the inner webs and olive-green on the 
outer ones ; lores and feathers in front of the eye black; eye-ring white ; base 
of fore-head inclining to yellow; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, sides of body, and 
imder tail-coverts sulphur-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, 
slightly tinged with sulphur-yellow ; under-surface of flight-quills blackish-brown 
margined with white ; lower aspect of tail dark brown. Total length 108 mm.; 
culmen 9, wing 56, tail 40, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at Point Headland, 
Northern Mid-west Australia, in October 1907, and is the type of Zosterops lutea 
headlandi. (Bottom figure.) 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface dull greenish-yellow, including the top 
of the head, sides of face, sides of neck, hind-neck, back, scapulars, upper wing- 
coverts, and outer margins of flight-quills ; inner webs of flight-quills dark hair- 
brown margined with dull white ; upper tail-coverts somewhat paler than the back ; 
tail-feathers pale hair-brown, more or less tinged with yellow, and have dark obsolete 
cross-bars ; lores and a portion of the eye-ring blackish ; base of fore-head paler than 
the top of the head; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs, and 
under tail-coverts yellow ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, inner margins of flight-quill 
below white, remainder of the quill-lining hair-brown ; lower aspect of tail similar. 
Eyes brown, feet and legs leaden-blue, bill blackish-brown, lower base pale leaden- 
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