Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)

Madarász, Gy.: Description of some new birds from Ceylon

4 ±2 D; J. v. MADARÁSZ Zosterops egregia n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 1.) Zosterops palpebrosa (nec TEMM.), LEGGE

, Birds of Ceyl. p. 583 (1880) ; MADABÁSZ

, Természetr. Füzetek, XX. p. 357 (1897). Above light yellowish green (much paler and more yellowish than that of Z. palpebrosa, TEMM.) shading into pure yellow on the front; wing and tail brown, edged with the same colour as the back; round the eye broadly white ; lores black, which colour surrounds the lower part of the white orbital ring ; chin, throat and under tail-coverts primrose-yellow; beneath white, whith a delicate hue of greyish-drab ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of the wing white ; bend of wing sulphur-yellow ; thigs white, with a scarcely perceptible hue of light yellow on the lower edge ; bill black, base of the lower mandible and feet bluish-grey in life ; iris ocker-yellow. Tot. length 113—115, wing 56—57, tail 44—45, bill (from the gape) 13, tarsus 15 mm. Male and female are uniform in colour, but the latter is somewhat smaller and has a narrower orbital ring. The comparison of this species with Z. palpebrosa (Plate XVI. fig. 2.) and other species proves we have to do not only with a subspecies of Z. palpebrosa, buth with a quite different species, which is nearest allied to Z. citrinella, BP.