White-eyes (Zosteropidae)

Yellow-spectacled White-eye (Zosterops wallacei) - HBW 13, p. 453

French: Zostérops à lunettes jaunes German: Gelbring-Brillenvogel Spanish: Anteojitos Ojigualdo
Other common names: Wallace’s White-eye

Taxonomy: Zosterops wallacei Finsch, 1901, Flores.
Relationships uncertain; seems to be distantly related to Z. atricapilla, Z. everetti, Z. nigrorum and others. Very different from other members of genus in region in several features, e.g. wing formula (with short primary P2, as small as or smaller than P10), head pattern (trace of superciliary stripe) and speckled eggs. Although birds from Flores slightly smaller on average than those from Sumba, difference considered too trivial to warrant naming of geographical races. Treated as monotypic.

Distribution: Lesser Sunda Is: Sumbawa, Moyo, Komodo, Rinca, Sumba, Flores, Besar, Adonara, Lomblen.