Australian and New Zealand another name for white-eye
white-eye in British English
noun
1. Also called (NZ): blighty, silvereye, tauhou, waxeye
any songbird of the family Zosteropidae of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, having a greenish plumage with a white ring around each eye
2.
any of certain other birds having a white ring or patch around the eye
silver-eye in American English
(ˈsɪlvərˌai)
nounWord forms: plural-eyes
white-eye
Word origin
[1885–90]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, foregut, reactor, roller coaster, zoom