Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 34. 
Family ZOSTEROPIDM. 
NESOZOSTEROPS ALBOGULARIS 
WHITE-BREASTED WHITE-EYE. 
(Plate 27.) 
Nesozosterops Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 451, Jan. 31st, 1912. Type (by original 
designation): Zoslerops slrenna Gould. 
Zosterofs ALBOGULARIS Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. and Adj. Isl., pt. 1, pi. 18, Jan. 1st, 1837 : 
Murrumbklgee River error=Norfolk Island. 
Zosterops albogularis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. and Adj. Isl., pt. 1, pi. 18, Jan. 1st, 1837 ; 
id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1836, p. 75, Jan. 16th, 1837 ; id., Birds Austr. Suppl., pt. 3, 
pi. 46, Sept. 1st, 1859 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 535, Dec. 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 154, 1884 (pref. Feb. 11th) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 90, Jan. 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 450, Jan. 1912. 
Zosterops gularis “ Gould ” Lesson, Rev. Mad. de Zool., 1840 (for May), p. 135, error only. 
Nesozosterops albogularis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 324, Dec. 1913 ; Mathews and Iredale, 
Austral. Av. Rec., Vol. IV., p. 110, Dec. 16th, 1920. 
Distribution. Norfolk Island. 
Adult male. Fore-head, crown of the head, occiput and nape bright greenish-olive ; lores black, 
feathers surrounding the eyes white ; scapulars, lower back and rump olive-brown; upper 
tail-coverts greenish-olive ; wing-coverts dark olive-green : quills ash-brown, margined 
on the outer web with greenish-olive ; the outer pair of tail-feathers uniform ash-brown, 
remainder margined on the outer web with dark olive-green ; chin, throat, sides of neck 
and fore-neck white, suffused with pale buff, bordered down the sides with dark grey ; 
chest, breast and abdomen creamy-white ; sides of body, flanks and thighs dark umber- 
brown ; under tail-coverts primrose-yellow; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure 
white ; quills below ash, widely margined on the inner web with white. Bill black, lower 
base grey, eyes light brown, feet blue-grey. Total length 142 mm. : culmen 14, wing 76, 
tail 54, tarsus 23. Figured. Collected at Middlegate, Norfolk Island, on the 7th of June, 
1913. 
Adult female. Differs only in having green instead of black lores. Total length 140 mm.: culmen 
13, wing 76, tail 56, tarsus 22. Collected near Kingston, Norfolk Island, on the 25th of 
April, 1913. 
Nest and eggs. The nest is suspended in a fork of a twig, the cup not very deep. It is composed, of 
rootlets and dry stalks of grasses and lined with fine grass-stalks and a few horse-hairs. 
Sometimes some cocoons, cobwebs, feathers, and other materials are added on the outside. 
Two eggs each were found in October, November and December. The rather large eggs are 
like those of other species of the genus, pale blue with little gloss. They measure : 
216 X 15, 22-3 X 16 5 ; 235 X 15 6, 23 3 X 16 ; 23 X 163, 22 5 X 16 22 X 15 6, 
21 X 15 6; 23-5 X 16T, 23 X 16 ; 22'5 X 16'5, 22 5 X 161 ; 22 X 165, 216 X 16 5 ; 
22'2 x 16'6 mm. 
Breeding-season. October to December. 
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