Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

18 COLLECTIONS FKOM MELANESIA.different islands in Torres Straits, one of the localities mentioned bythe last-named anthor being Warrior Island, whence the originaltype of Z. alhiventris came.29. Zosterops lutea, Gould.S/iarpe, t. c. p. 183; Ramsay^ t. c. p. 191.a. 2- Tort Darwin, Oct. 1881. Bill horn-colour ; legs grey.This specimen is rather duller in colour than a male fromCape York, and much paler yellow below, this brighter colourbeing probably due to sex, as the Cape-York bird is evidentlyan adult male. The female measures:—Total length 4*1 inches,culmen 0'-t5, wing 2-2, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-6,30. Manorhina garrula {Lath.).Gadotv, t. c. p. 260.Myzantha garrula, Ramsay, t. c. p. 191.a. c? . Port Curtis, Queensland, April 1881.b. .S Port Curtis, April 1881.Young birds are washed on the back with olive-yellow, and aremuch darker above and below, not showing the whitish bars at thetips of the man tie- feathers.31. Stigniatops ocularis {Gould).Ramsay, t. c. p. 189.Glyciphila ocularis, Gadotv, t. c. p. 213.a. cJ. Percy Island, April 1881,32. Stigniatops subocularis, Gould.Ramsay, t. c. p. 189.Glyciphila subocularis, pt., Gachxo, t. c. p. 215.a. cJ. Port Darwin, Nov. 1881. Bill, legs, and feet black.Dr. Gadosv has united the present species to S. oadaris, and considersthat intermediate forms occur between them. This I donot find from an examination of the series in the British Museum,for I have found no difficulty in referring the specimens eitherto one or the other of the above-named species. On the otherhand, Count Salvadori seems to be quite right in uniting the Aru-Island birds with the Australian, as they are only a littlelarger and somewhat darker in colour. He adds that the specimensmarked PtUotis limbata, Temm., from Timor, in the LeidenMuseum, are also identical with the Australian *S'. ocularis. Timor