ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the birds comes under the family Zosteropidae: White-eyes, Yellow white-eye, Montane white-eye, and Abyssinian white-eye. The white-eyes are most diverse in the NE Afrotropical, with three species in highland areas of W Ethiopia, Kenya and extreme NE Tanzania. The Yellow White-eye forms part of a species-group with the Montane and Abyssinian White-eyes. The Abyssinian White-eye is also mostly E of the rift valley. Mixed flocks of Montane and Abyssinian White-eyes are common around 1650 m at Nairobi 75B, and Br considers the two species sympatric there. In contrast to the other two white-eyes, the Abyssinian's range is 81% within intermediate 250–1000 mm rainfall areas, and 68% semiarid-dry subhumid. This bird is mostly known from the lower slopes of the C highlands and their surrounding semiarid plateaux. Records from the apparently suitable semiarid-dry subhumid coastal strip are curiously restricted to Mongeya Hill 102B, Ngomeni 103A, Witu 91AB, and the islands of Lamu and Manda 91B.
