General names
Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Species list may not be current. Korean glosses are only tentative. Comments and corrections welcome.
The Japanese name for the white-eye is メジロ me-jiro, consisting of the words me (目) meaning 'eye' and shiro (白) meaning 'white'. Shiro here changes to a voiced vowel, as -jiro, when it forms the second part of a compound word. The characters for me-jiro are 目白 (sometimes 眼白).
The genus Apalopteron is known as the メグロ me-guro meaning 'black eye', written 目黒 ('eye + black') in Chinese characters. This is analogous to the name of the whiteeyes, メジロ me-jiro 'eye + white'.
Zosterops japonica is quite familiar to the Japanese. Its name occurs in the phrase 目白押し mejiro-oshi meaning 'jostling' or 'milling', from their habit of gathering on branches in jostling clusters.
Species names
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| Zosterops erythropleurus Zosterops erythropleura |
Chestnut-flanked white-eye Red-flanked white-eye Zostérops à flancs marron Rostflanken-Brillenvogel Буробокая белоглазка |
チョウセンメジロ (朝鮮目白) chōsen me-jiro 'Korean white-eye' (Wikipedia) |
红胁绣眼鸟 (紅脇繡眼鳥) 'red-ribbed embroidered eye bird' |
红胁粉眼 (紅脇粉眼) 'red-ribbed embroidered eye' 粉眼 (粉眼) 'powder eye' 北粉眼 (北粉眼) 'northern powder eye' (cf Z. japonica below) 绣眼儿 (繡眼兒) 'embroidered eye' 白眼儿 (白眼兒) 'white eye' 红胁粉眼 (紅脇粉眼) 'red-ribbed powder eye' 紫燕儿 (紫燕兒) 'purple swallow' |
한국동박새 hanguk-dong-bak-sae 'Korean dong bak bird (=tit)' |
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| Zosterops japonicus Zosterops japonica |
Japanese white-eye Dark green white-eye Zostérops du Japon Japanbrillenvogel Японская белоглазка |
メジロ (目白) me-jiro 'white-eye' |
暗绿绣眼鸟 (暗綠繡眼鳥) 'dark green embroidered eye bird' |
(绿绣眼) 綠繡眼 'green embroidered eye' |
粉眼儿 (粉眼兒) 'powder eye' (Beijing) 绣眼鸟 (繡眼鳥) 'embroidered eye bird' 绣眼儿 (繡眼兒) 'embroidered eye' 白眼儿 (白眼兒) 'white eye' 白目眶 (白目眶) 'white eye socket' 白日眶 (白日眶) 'white day eye socket' (mistaken?) 粉燕儿 (粉燕兒) 'powder swallow' 南粉眼 (南粉眼) 'southern powder eye' (cf Z. erythropleura above) 相思 (相思) 'mutual thought' (7) cf. Leiothrix |
동박새 dong-bak-sae 'dong bak bird (=tit)' |
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Apalopteron familiare |
Bonin honeyeater Bonin white-eye Bonin Island honeyeater Zostérops des Bonin Boninhonigfresser Бонинский медосос |
メグロ (目黒) me-guro 'black-eye' |
笠原吸蜜鸟 (笠原吸蜜鳥) 'Ogasawara suck-honey-bird' |
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