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Di J. V. MADARÁSZ 
Zosterops egregia n. sp. 
(Plate XVI. fig. 1.) 
Zosterops palpebrosa (nec Temm.), Legge, Birds of Ceyl. p. 583 (1880) ; 
Madarász, Természetr. Füzetek, XX. p. 357 (1897). 
Above light yellowish green (much paler and more yellowish than 
that of Z. palpebrosa , Temm.) shading into pure yellow on the front; 
wing and tail brown, edged with the same colour as the back; round 
the eye broadly white ; lores black, which colour surrounds the lower 
part of the white orbital ring; chin, throat and under tail-coverts 
primrose-yellow; beneath white, whith a delicate hue of greyish - drab ; 
under wing-coverts and inner edges of the wing white; bend of wing 
sulphur-yellow; thigs white, with a scarcely perceptible hue of light 
yellow on the lower edge ; bill black, base of the lower mandible and 
feet bluish-grey in life; iris ocker-yellow. 
Tot. length 113—115, wing 56—57, tail 44—45, bill (from the 
gape) 13, tarsus 15 mm. 
Male and female are uniform in colour, but the latter is some¬ 
what smaller and has a narrower orbital ring. 
The comparison of this species with Z. palpebrosa (Plate XVI. 
fig. 2.) and other species proves we have to do not only with a sub¬ 
species of Z. palpebrosa , buth with a quite different species, which is 
nearest allied to Z. citrinella , Bp. 
