Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 33. 
Family Z0STER0P1DM. 
ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS. 
(TEPHROPLEURA.) 
LORD HOWE ISLAND WHITE-EYE. 
(Plate 27.) 
Zosterops Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 234, Eeb. 17th, 1827. 
Type (by monotypy): Zosterops dorsalis Vigors and Horsfield =Sylvia lateralis Latham. 
Luteozosterops Mathews, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. V., pts. 2-3., p. 36, Eeb. 21st, 1923. Type (by 
original designation) : Zosterops albeventris cairncrossi Mathews. 
Sylvia lateralis Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. lv., after May 30th, 1801: Sydney, New South 
Wales. 
Rusty-sided Warbler Latham, General Synops. Birds, Suppl. ii., p. 250, 1801 : New South Wales 
(fig. Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. IV., pi. 81 (pt. xi.), June 1st, 1843; Mathews, Birds Austr., 
Vol. XI., pt. 3, pi. 505, Dec. 27th, 1923). 
Zosterops tephropleura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1855, p. 166, Dec. 18th : Lord Howe 
Island : id., Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 49, pt. 2, Sept. 1st, 1855 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 538, Dec. 1865 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 90, Jan. 1908 ; Mathews 
and Iredale, Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. IV., p. 109, Dec. 16th, 1920. 
Zosterops lateralis tephropleura Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 386, Jan. 1912. 
Distribution. Lord Howe Island. 
Adult male. Head, nape, hind-neck, mantle and scapulars dark ash-grey ; rump, upper tail- 
coverts and -wing-coverts bright olive-green, lightest on the upper tail-coverts ; primary- 
quills and tail ash-grey, margined on the outer web with olive-green ; fore-head and lores 
dark olive-green ; feathers round the eye white, bordered below with dusky ; sides of face, 
cheeks, ear-coverts, cliin and throat sulphur-yellow; chest, breast, abdomen, sides of the 
body and flanks isabelline-buff ; under tail-coverts bright lemon-yellow ; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries white ; quills below ash-grey, lighter on the inner web. Bill black, with 
low r er base blue-grey ; eyes light brown, feet fight blue-grey. Total length 132 mm.: 
culmen 11, wing 61, tail 50, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at the Pines, Lord Howe 
Island, on the 5th of May, 1914. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Total length 129 mm. : culmen 10, wing 59, tail 50, 
tarsus 19. Collected at the Pines, on the 11th of May, 1914. 
Eggs. A clutch of two eggs, found on the 11th of January, 1914, on Lord Howe Island, was sent. 
The eggs are in size between those of lateralis and tenuirostris and measure 28’6 X 15 and 
29'4 X 15 - 2 mm. The colour is of course the same as that of the other forms. 
Breeding-season. January. 
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