Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 36. 
Family ZOSTEROPIDAS. 
NESOZOSTEROPS STRENUA. 
ROBUST WHITE-EYE. 
(Plate 27.) 
Zosteeops strentja Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1855, p. 166, Dec. 18th : Lord Howe Island. 
Zosterops strenua Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1855, p. 166, Dec. 18th; id.. Birds Austr. 
Suppl., pt. ii., pi. 48, Sept. 1st, 1855 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 537, Dec. 1865 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IX., p. 155, 1884 (pref. Feb. 11th); Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 90, Jan. 1908 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 450, Jan. 1912. 
Nesozosterops strenua Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 324, Dec. 1913. 
Distribution. Lord Howe Island. 
Adult male. Fore-head, crown of head, nape and hind-neck yellowish-green; lores bright 
yellowish-green; feathers round the eye white, below which is a dusky patch; sides of 
face, cheeks and ear-coverts bright yellowish-green ; chin, throat and lower neck sulphur- 
yellow ; chest, breast, abdomen, sides of the body and flanks creamy-white ; under tail- 
coverts light sulphur-yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below ash-grey 
inclining to whitish on the margins of the inner -web. Bill black, with lower base blue-grey, 
eyes light brown, feet light blue-grey. Total length 155 mm.: cuknen 18, wing 71, tail 
54, tarsus 25. Figured. Collected at the Pines, Lord Howe Island, on the 31st of October, 
1913. 
Adult female. Similar to the above. Total length 150 mm.: culmen 15, wing 67, tail 52, tarsus 
23. Collected at the Pines on the 24th of November, 1913. 
Nest and eggs. The nests are considerably smaller than those of Z. albogularis and tenuirostris 
and built of finer material; two of them contain a great amount of sheeps’ wool; one, 
skeleton leaves. The cup seems to be comparatively deeper. Two to three eggs were 
found on the 6th of November, 8th of December, and 31st of December, 1912. They are 
very much smaller than those of Z. tenuirostris and measure : 18'3 X 12'3, 18'7 X 13 ; 
17-2 X 12-8,16-8 X 12-7,16 6 X 12'7 ; 1S 2 X 127, 18 X 13 5; 171 X 127, 131 X 12 7 mm. 
Breeding-season. November and December. 
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