YELLOW WHITE-EYE. 
a slight wash of buff on the flanks ; legs light lead-grey; bill dark lead-grey 
above, lower mandible paler. Total length, 4*2; wings, 2 - 25; tail, P8; 
tarsus, 0’7 ; bill from fore-head, 055 ; from nostril, 03; from gape, 06. 
Norman River, Queensland. This species seems to belong more to the sub¬ 
genus Tephrcis than to Zosterops proper, in its more rounded wings and tail 
and want of the eye-ring; the bill, however, is liko that of a true Zosterops." 
The description is of an immature or female bird, the adult male being 
a beautiful “ lutea ” with a distinct eye-ring. 
Another thirty years passed and then Grant described: “ Zosterops balstoni. 
Adult male and female. Similar to Z. lutea Gould, but with the upper parts 
decidedly more greyish-olive, and the under parts, especially the middle of 
the breast and belly, less brilliant yellow. Carnarvon, Mid-west Australia. - ’ 
I accepted these two as subspecies of lutea and added a fourth in my 
“ Reference List ” as 
Zosterops lutea tribulationis. 
“ Differs from Z. 1. lutea in its much paler coloration both above and 
below, being paler than Z. 1. balstoni. Point Torment, North-west Australia.” 
I later added 
Zosterops lutea hecla. 
“ Differs from Z. 1. lutea in its larger size, more golden-yellow underneath, 
and more yellowish-green above. Hecla Island, Parry Harbour, North-west 
Australia.” 
These five were admitted in my 1913 “ List,” but I have added Zosterops 
lutea headlandi, and no emendations have since been made so that we now have: 
Zosterops lutea lutea Gould. 
Northern Territory. 
Note.—Type from an island in Van Diemen’s Gulf. 
Zosterops lutea hecla Mathews. 
Hecla Island, Parry Harbour, North-west 
Australia. 
Zosterops lutea tribulationis Mathews. 
North-west Australia (Mainland). 
Zosterops lutea headlandi Mathews. 
Mid-west Australia (North). 
Zosterops lutea balstoni Grant. 
Mid-west Australia (South). 
Zosterops lutea gulliveri Castelnau and Ramsay. 
Gulf Country, Queensland. 
The ranges of this form are not yet defined. 
Campbell, recording a male and female from King Island, Northern 
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