Zosteropidae
繡眼科
xiù-yǎn kē

General

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The Zosteropidae consist of the white-eyes (Zosterops) and the yuhinas (Yuhina), the latter long considered to belong to the Timaliidae assemblage.

1. The Chinese name for the white-eyes is 繡眼 xiù-yǎn 'embroidered-eye' or 繡眼鳥 xiù-yǎn-niǎo, 'embroidered-eye bird'. The former was proposed as an ornithological name in the 1927 list of Chinese Birds (35). Alternative names include 白眼儿 bái-yǎnr 'white eye' or 粉眼 fěn-yǎn 'powder-eye', the latter given as a ‘northern name’ in (35).

2. The Taiwanese name for the local Taiwan Yuhina is 冠羽畫眉 guān-yǔ huà-méi 'crest-feather painted-eyebrow', which suggests that it as a kind of Hwamei or Melodious Laughing-thrush. The original proposed name of the yuhinas in (35) was 优西纳 yōuxīnà, a loose transliteration of the English. On the Mainland the yuhinas are called 鳳鶥 fèng-méi 'phoenix-babbler', where 鳳 fèng 'phoenix' is a standard way of referring to birds with crests, and 鶥 méi is the ornithological term for babblers, derived from the 眉 méi 'eyebrow' in 画眉 huà-méi 'painted eyebrow'.

Species names

SCIENTIFIC & ENGLISH		CHINESE			JAPANESE		OTHER
Yuhina
Latin	English	Chinese (Taiwan)	Chinese (Mainland)	Other Ch	Japanese	Other J	Korean	Vietnamese
Yuhina brunneiceps	Taiwan yuhina Formosan yuhina	冠羽畫眉 (冠羽画眉) guān-yǔ huà-méi 'crest-feather painted-eyebrow'	(褐頭鳳鶥) 褐头凤鹛 hè-tóu fèng-méi 'brown-headed phoenix-babbler'		カンムリチメドリ (冠知目鳥) kanmuri chime-dori 'crested babbler-bird'
Zosterops
Latin	English	Chinese (Taiwan)	Chinese (Mainland)	Other Ch	Japanese	Other J	Korean	Vietnamese
Zosterops japonicus Zosterops japonica	Japanese white-eye Dark green white-eye	綠繡眼 (绿绣眼) lǜ xiù-yǎn 'green embroidered-eye'	(暗綠繡眼鳥) 暗绿绣眼鸟 àn-lǜ xiù-yǎn-niǎo 'dark green embroidered-eye bird'	粉眼兒 (粉眼儿) fěn-yǎnr 'powder-eye' (Beijing) 繡眼鳥 (绣眼鸟) xiù-yǎn-niǎo 'embroidered-eye bird' 繡眼兒 (绣眼儿) xiù-yǎnr 'embroidered-eye' 白眼兒 (白眼儿) bái-yǎnr 'white eye' 白目眶 (白目眶) bái-mù kuàng 'white eye socket' 白日眶 (白日眶) bái-rì kuàng 'white day eye socket' (mistaken?) 粉燕兒 (粉燕儿) fěn-yànr 'powder swallow' 南粉眼 (南粉眼) nán fěn-yǎnr 'southern powder-eye' (cf Z. erythropleura) 相思 (相思) xiāng-sī 'mutual thought' (7) cf. Leiothrix	メジロ (目白) me-jiro 'white-eye'		동박새 dong-bak-sae 'dong tit bird'	Chim Vành khuyên Nhật Bản 'Japanese circle-rim (bird)' (12, 13)
Zosterops meyeni	Lowland White-eye Philippine White-eye	低地繡眼 (低地绣眼鸟) dī-dì xiù-yǎn 'low land embroidered-eye'	(低地繡眼鳥) 低地绣眼鸟 dī-dì xiù-yǎn-niǎo 'low land embroidered-eye bird' (4)	Taiwan formerly: 巴丹綠繡眼 (巴丹绣眼鸟) bādān lǜ xiù-yǎn 'Batan green embroidered-eye' (Batan is an island between Luzon and Taiwan)	フィリピンメジロ (フィリピン目白) Firipin me-jiro 'Philippine white-eye'

The term 畫眉 huà-méi 'painted eyebrow' refers to the Hwamei or Melodious Laughing-thrush in the Leiothrichidae.

中国鸟类种和亚种分类名录大全（修订版） 郑作新 著 科学出版社 北京 2000年
A Complete Checklist of Species and Subspecies of the Chinese Birds (Revised Edition) by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 2000

中国鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2005年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of China Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2005

中国鸟类野外手册（中文版）约翰・马敬能、卡伦・菲利普斯，合作者：荷芬奇，翻译：卢和芬 湖南教育出版社 长沙 2000年
A Field Guide to the Birds of China (Chinese translation) by John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, in collaboration with He Fen-qi, translated by Lu Hefen, Hunan Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Hunan Educational Press) Changsha 2000

世界鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2002年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of the World Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2002

世界鸟类名称（拉丁文、汉文、英文对照）第二版 郑作新等 科学出版社 北京 2002年
Birds of the World (Latin, Chinese and English Names) 2nd ed. by Cheng Tso-Hsin et al, Science Press, Beijing 2002

中国鸟类分布名录 第二版 郑作新 科学出版社 北京 1976年
(Checklist of the Classification of Birds of China 2nd edition by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 1976)

香港及華南鳥類（第六版）（翻譯成中文及重新修訂） 尹璉、費嘉倫、林超英 香港性徵特區政府新聞處政府印務局 1994年
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Danh Lục Chim Việt Nam (In lần thứ hai) (Checklist of the Birds of Vietnam) Võ Quý, Nguyễn Cử, Nhà Xuất Bản Nông Nghiệp, Hà Nội 1999

Chim Việt Nam Nguyễn Cử, Lê Trọng Trải, Karen Phillipps; Nhà Xuất Bản Lao Động - Xã Hội, 2000

Danh Lục Các Loài Chim ở Việt Nam (Latinh, Việt, Pháp, Hán) Trần Văn Chánh 2008-2009

Chinese Birds (A Tentative List of Chinese Birds) 中國鳥類（中國鳥類目錄試編） N. Gist Gee, Lacy I. Moffett, G. D. Wilder (祁天錫, 慕維德, 萬卓志), Peiping, 1927 (reprinted 1948)