Marianne White-eye Zosterops semiflavus Scientific name definitions

Reports that this species occurred also on Mahé, South-East I, Praslin, La Digue and Silhouette remain unsubstantiated (1 Warren, B. H., E. Bermingham, R. P. Prŷs-Jones, and C. Thébaud (2006). Immigration, species radiation and extinction in a highly diverse songbird lineage: white-eyes on Indian Ocean islands. Molecular Ecology 15(12):3769–3786. Close ). Apart from Newton’s specimens, it seems to have been collected only in 1892 (2 Ridgway, R. (1895). On the birds collected by Doctor W. L. Abbott in the Seychelles, Amirantes, Gloriosa, Assumption, Aldabra, and adjacent islands, with notes on habits, etc., by the collector. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 18: 509–546. Close ). The species was certainly extinct by 1940, and probably around 1900. Causes of its demise suggested as being deforestation, predation by introduced rats and competition with introduced bird species.

Marianne I, Seychelles.