360 H. Th. von Heuglin on a new African Zo&terops. 
Bourbon (Leclancher). Two specimens in the Paris collec¬ 
tion. A very large species. 
8. Z. senegalensis, Bonap. 
Supra Isete virescenti-flava, subtus pure et dilute flava; lineola 
nigra inter oculum et rictum; annulo periophthalmico 
nitide albo; subalaribus flavis; rostro et pedibus nigrican- 
tibus. 
Long 4| f/ ; rostr. a fr. al. 1" 1 l ,,r ; caud. IS" 1 -, tars. 6f m . 
Syn. Z. flava , Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 43, pi. 3. Z. citrina, 
Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 22. Z. senegalensis, Bp. Consp. 
p. 399; Reichenb. Meropin. p. 90, fig. 3288; Hartl. Syst. Orn. 
Westafr. p. 72. Z. icterovirens, Herz. v. Wiirt. Icon. ined. 
t. 41. b. 
Inhabits Senegambia. The description is taken from a speci¬ 
men from the Casamanse River. Atbara (Herz. v. Wiirt.). A 
careful and repeated examination of the very fine figure in the 
Duke of Wiirtemberg’s f leones ineditse ’ leaves me no doubt as 
to the identity of his Z. icterovirens with the well-known Senegal 
species, Z. senegalensis. 
9. Z. virens, Sundev. 
Flavo-viridis; gastrseo flavo, exceptis hypochondriis conspicue 
virescentibus; loris nigris, superne flavis; rostro nigro; 
pedibus fuscis. 
Long. 4|"; al. 2 n 2 ,n ; tars. 5| w . 
Syn. Zosterops virens , Sundev. Ofvers. Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. 
Forhandl. 1850, p. 101. 
Inhabits Upper Caffraria (Wahlb.). 
Nearly allied to the preceding, but larger and greener. Cer¬ 
tainly distinct. 
b. Malacirops. 
10. Z. borbonica (Briss.). 
Supra cinerea, subtus alba, lateribus pallide brunnescente lavatis; 
rectricibus et remigibus fuscis, his dorsi colore fimbriatis; 
subalaribus et subcaudalibus albis; rostro fusco ; pedibus 
pallidis. 
Long. 4"; rostr. a fr. 4 ,/ '; al. 2" V" ; caud. 1" 2"'; tars. 7i m . 
Syn. Ficedula borbonica, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 510, pi. 28. fig. 3. 
Le petit Simon de Bourbon, Buff. PI. Enl. 105. fig. 2; Hartl. 
