Lemon-bellied White-eye

Zosterops chloris Bonaparte, 1850

Lemon-bellied White-eye, Zosterops chloris, is a passerine in the white-eye family and breeds across islands in Australasia, including islets north of Java and west of Borneo, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sundas, central and southern Moluccas, and islands off western New Guinea. It was described by Bonaparte in 1850. The species is found in Indonesia across a wide island chain, with a pattern that excludes the largest islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Timor. Its natural habitats are moist lowland forest and mangrove forest, and on Buton and Kabaena it is recorded mainly in coastal areas.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Zosteropidae — White-eyes

Breeding range

Australasia: islets n of Java and w of Borneo, Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, c and s Moluccas and islands off w New Guinea