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ZOSTEROPS LUTEUS, Goud.

Yellow Zosterops.

Zosterops luteus, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc.

 

Turis new species is an inhabitant of the northern portion of Australia. “] first met with it,” says Mr.
Gilbert, ‘“‘in August, on Greenhill Island, Van Diemen’s Gulf, dwelling among the mangroves or the
densest thickets. It is much more wild and solitary than Zosterops dorsalis, and does not resort like that
bird to the gardens and the neighbourhood of the houses of the settlers ; its note is also very different,
instead of the long drawn-out note of Z. dorsalis. When disturbed it
s, where it was effectually hidden from

of from three to seven or eight im

being a pretty canary-like song,
usually left the thicket for the higher branches of the gum-tree
view by the thick foliage. It was generally met with in small families
number.”

All the upper surface olive-yellow ;
head and throat pure yellow ; lores and
feathers ; abdomen and under tail-coverts
grey, the basal half rather lighter ; apical third of th
ash-grey; legs and feet bluish grey.
The figures are of the natural size.

primaries and tail-feathers brown, margined with olive-yellow ; fore-
ircled with a zone of white

line beneath the eye black; eye enc

dull yellow ; irides light reddish brow
blackish grey ; basal two-thirds light

n; upper mandible blackish

e lower mandible

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