Hume's white-eye explained

Hume's white-eye (Zosterops auriventer) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in upland areas of Myanmar, southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.

This species was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Indian white-eye (Zosterops palpebrosus). Based on a study published as two articles in 2017, it was promoted to species rank. Included as subspecies are two taxa that were previously treated as subspecies of Everett's white-eye (Zosterops everetti).^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

There are four subspecies:^[3]

Z. a. auriventer Hume, 1878 – southeast Myanmar (Tenasserim Hills)
Z. a. tahanensis (Ogilvie-Grant, 1906) – central and south Malay Peninsula
Z. a. wetmorei (Deignan, 1943) – south Thailand, north Malay Peninsula
Z. a. medius Robinson & Kloss, 1923 – Borneo

It is omnivorous.^[4]

Notes and References

Wells . D.R. . 2017 . Zosterops white-eyes in continental South-East Asia. 1: proposed refinements to the regional definition of Oriental White-eye Z. palpebrosus . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 137 . 2 . 100–109 . 10.25226/bboc.v137i2.2017.a12 . free .
Wells . D.R. . 2017 . Zosterops white-eyes in continental South-East Asia. 2: what is Zosterops auriventer Hume? . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 137 . 2 . 110–117 . 10.25226/bboc.v137i2.2017.a13 . free .
Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes . World Bird List Version 9.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 23 January 2019 .
Razali . Haslina . Kalarikkal . Remya Kottarathu . Ang . Guat Lian . Grafe . Ulmar . 2023-12-07 . The dynamic avifaunal assemblage of a fragmented urbanised habitat at Universiti Brunei Darussalam . Scientia Bruneiana . 21 . 1 . 1–18 . 10.46537/scibru.v21i1.135 . 2519-9498.