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Bismarck White-eye
Zosterops hypoxanthus Salvadori, 1881
Zosteropidae — White-eyes
Bismarck White-eye, Zosterops hypoxanthus, is a passerine in the white-eye family found in the Bismarck Archipelago, including the Admiralty Islands. It was described by Salvadori in 1881. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea’s Bismarck Archipelago, with records from New Britain, New Ireland and several smaller islands. It occurs in forests, forest edges, secondary growth, gardens and plantations, mainly in hill and mountain country and less often at sea level. It has a black face, dark olive upperparts, an olive rump, a black tail and bright yellow underparts, with a white eye-ring that is broken at the front.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Zosteropidae — White-eyes
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Bismarck Arch., including Admiralty Is.
