white-eye

[ hwahyt-ahy, wahyt- ]

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noun

, plural white-eyes.

any of numerous small, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Zosteropidae, most of which have a ring of white feathers around the eye: several species are endangered.

white-eye

Also called (NZ)blightysilvereyetauhouwaxeye any songbird of the family Zosteropidae of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, having a greenish plumage with a white ring around each eye
any of certain other birds having a white ring or patch around the eye

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First recorded in 1840–50

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"Old Calamity" was a roan, with one wicked white eye, that in his best days had done a hundred miles in ten hours.

Sides of lower mandible conspicuously grooved; entire plumage sooty brown, except a white eye-ring.

Head slaty; throat and breast grayish; an inconspicuous white eye-ring.

Similar to No. 679, but with an incomplete white eye-ring showing above and below eye.

The black and white eye-spots are not real eyes, but to a bird they doubtless seem so.

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