White-eyes (Zosteropidae)

White-throated White-eye (Zosterops meeki) - HBW 13, p. 457

French: Zostérops à gorge blanche German: Tagulabrillenvogel Spanish: Anteojitos Goliblanco
Other common names: Tagula (Black-fronted)/Louisiade Black-fronted White-eye

Taxonomy: Zosterops meeki E. J. O. Hartert, 1898, Tagula Island (Sudest Island), in Louisiade Archipelago.
Forms a superspecies with Z. atriceps, Z. atrifrons, Z. somadikartai, Z. nehrkorni, Z. stalkeri, Z. minor and Z. hypoxanthus. Sometimes treated as conspecific with Z. minor, of which it may be merely a race which has lost its yellow throat. Monotypic.

Distribution: Tagula I (in Louisade Is), off SE New Guinea.

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