zosteropsn.
/ˈzɒstərɒps/ Ornithology.
Any of the small birds of the genus so named, widely distributed chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, and characterized by a ring of white feathers round the eye; a silver-eye or white-eye.
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1867 A. L. Adams Wanderings Naturalist India 71 That beautiful warbler the yellow zosterops, known by the white downy ring round the eye.
1909 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 204/2 It is interesting to watch a Zosterops operating on a pear.
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