MOUNT APO SILVEREYE.

Zosterops whiteheadi vulcani Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club

(1903), 14, 14.

Zosterops vulcani McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 95;

Grant, Ibis (1906), 473.

Mindanao (Goodfellow, Mearns).

Diagnosis.--"Entirely like Z. w. whiteheadi but larger and with a dusky

shade under the eye. Wing, 58.8; tail, 40; bill, 10.5." (Hartert.)

A male from Mount Apo measures: Wing, 55; tail, 38; culmen from base,

12.5; bill from nostril, 8; tarsus, 18. A female, wing, 54; tail,

37.5; culmen from base, 12.5; bill from nostril, 7.5.

This subspecies appears to be very slightly different from Zosterops

meyeni.

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