STIGMATOFS 'CHLOBIS , Sab/aJ,.
STIGMATOPS CHLORIS, Salvad.
Mysol Honey-eater.
Sligmatops argmlmris, p t , Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic: Genov, xii. p . 336 (1878).
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o u n t S a l v a d o b i separated (he Honey-eater from Mysol from Stigmalops ocularis of Aostraha on account
■ its greener coloration and whitish anricnlar spot. Dr. Gadow, in treating of the last-named species, unites
it only Stigmalops chloris but also S . suhoculam to S . ocularis, stating that intermediate forms frequently
H We have already had occasion,; lb controvert this reasoning on Dr. Gadow’s part, and we do not
estate to restore, to these species of Sligmatops the distinct position accorded to them by Count Salvador!,
liose work Dr. Gadow has somewhat unreasonably upset.
S chloris is yellowish both above and below, instead o f greyish as S . ocularis, and the ear-spot is whitish
'wo specimens are in the British Museum from Mysol; and we are indebted to the kindness o f our friend
>r. Jentink for the loan o f aspecimen from the Leyden Museum, collected in Mysol g Hoedt June 1867,
nd o n e of the types described by Salvadori. The following is a description o f this specimen :
M u lt male. General colour above dull greyish olive, more distinctly greyish on the neck and scapulars,
ighter and tinged with olive-yellow on the rump and upper tai 1-covertsy wing.coverts like the back, the
-renter series dusky brown, edged with the same colour as the back, the median and greater coverts
¡(distinctly tipped with ashy olive; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, margined
■xternally with olive-yellow, brighter on the quills; tail-feathers ashy olive, with olive-yellow margins and
H M i shafts ; crown o f head like the back ; lores and sides of head above the ear-coverts somewhat more
luskv • cheeks pale ashy ; below the eye, a patch o f silvery white dots, followed by a spot o f silver, white on
■he ear-coverts under surface of bod, pale ashy washed with light olive-yellow, the centre o f the abdomen
rather brighter olive-yellow; the feathers of the fore neck and breast, with obsolete margins o f p a e ohve-
yellow, with a few mesial streaks o f the same colour ; under tail-coverts pale ashy, margined with light
yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts also pale ashy with light olive-yellow margins ; quills dusky below,
ash, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0 7 , wing 2 7 6 , tail 2 1,
talTbe°piate represents; an adult bird in two positions, the figures being drawn from the typical specimen