_Zosterops semperi takatsukasai_ Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 22. (Type locality, Ponapé.)
_Zosterops semperi_ (part), Finsch, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p.
286 (Ponapé); _idem_ (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 575
(Ponapé); _idem_ (part), Ibis, 1881, p. 115 (Ponapé); Schmeltz and
Krause (part), Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 281
(Ponapé); Finsch (part), Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 48
(Ponapé); Gadow (part), Cat. Birds British Mus., 9, 1884, p. 183
(Central Carolines, Ponapé); Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber.
Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 37 (Ponapé);
Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895,
p. 208 (Ponapé); Finsch, Das Tierreich, no. 15, 1901, p. 30
(Ponapé); Dubois (part), Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 710 (Ponapé);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, pp. 55, 64 (Ponapé).
_Zosterops owstoni_ Matschie (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp.
112, 113 (Ponapé).
_Zosterops semperi takatsukasai_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 76 (Ponapé); Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 705 (Ponapé); Snouchaert, Alauda,
(2), 3, 1931, p. 22 (Ponapé); Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Tori, 7,
1932, p. 400 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 174
(Ponapé).
_Zosterops conspicillata takatsukasai_ Stresemann, Mitt. Zool.
Mus. Berlin, 17, 1931, p. 227 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds,
3d ed., 1942, p. 193 (Ponapé); Mayr, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1269,
1944, p. 7 (Ponapé); _idem_, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 299
(Ponapé); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p.
73 (Ponapé).
_Zosterops conspicillata_ Mayr, Proc. 6th Pacific Sci. Congr., 4,
1941, p. 204 (Ponapé).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Ponapé.
_Characters._--Adult: Resembles adult of _Z. c. semperi_, but
slightly smaller with fronto-loral area more sulfur-yellow;
underparts brighter, especially the coloring of the abdomen and
under tail-coverts; iris light chestnut.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 50.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 20 (10 males, 9 females, 1
unsexed) from Caroline Islands, AMNH--Ponapé (Nov., Dec.).
_Nesting._--Yamashina (1932a:400) records nests and eggs of _Z. c.
takatsukasai_. The nests, each containing a single egg, were taken
on July 10 and 20, 1931. Coultas (field notes) writes that the nest
consists of a small, cup-shaped structure of grasses and hair. The
natives told him that two eggs were laid. In birds taken by Coultas
in November the gonads were beginning to enlarge; specimens taken
in December had swollen gonads. From the evidence at hand, it would
appear that the Bridled White-eye at Ponapé breeds at two periods
of the year, the winter and the summer.
_Molt._--Specimens examined, which were taken by Coultas in
November and December, are in fresh plumage.
_Remarks._--In 1931, Coultas (field notes) found this white-eye to be
rare at Ponapé. He obtained almost every one that he saw to get his
series of 20 specimens. He found the birds usually in pairs around
yellow-flowering bushy trees. A specimen taken by Richards had "small
insects" in its stomach.
=Zosterops conspicillata hypolais= Hartlaub and Finsch