Heleia
Heleia
Genus of birds
Heleia is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. One species, the spot-breasted heleia is restricted to the island of Timor.[1] The pygmy white-eye is endemic to the island of Borneo.[2] The thick-billed heleia, occurs on Flores and Sumbawa.[3]
The genus Heleia was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub to accommodate the spot-breasted heleia.[4] The name is from Ancient Greek eleia, an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar Callimachus.[5]
The genus contains ten species:[6]
- Mees's white-eye (Heleia javanica)
- Grey-hooded white-eye (Heleia pinaiae)
- Pygmy white-eye (Heleia squamifrons)
- Mindanao white-eye (Heleia goodfellowi)
- Streak-headed white-eye (Heleia squamiceps)
- Cream-browed white-eye (Heleia superciliaris)
- Crested white-eye (Heleia dohertyi)
- Spot-breasted heleia (Heleia muelleri)
- Thick-billed heleia (Heleia crassirostris)
- Yellow-ringed white-eye (Heleia wallacei)