''Heleia'' is a genus of birds in the white-eye family

Zosteropidae The white-eyes are a family, Zosteropidae, of small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia. White-eyes inhabit most tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, the ...

. One species, the

spot-breasted heleia The spot-breasted heleia (''Heleia muelleri''), also known as the spot-breasted white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found on Timor island. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and sub ...

is restricted to the island of

Timor Timor is an island at the southern end of Maritime Southeast Asia, in the north of the Timor Sea. The island is East Timor–Indonesia border, divided between the sovereign states of East Timor on the eastern part and Indonesia on the western p ...

.van Balen, B. (2017). Spot-breasted White-eye (Heleia muelleri). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/60249 on 27 March 2017). The

pygmy white-eye The pygmy white-eye (''Heleia squamifrons''), also known as the pygmy ibon, is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. Distribution and habitat It is endemic to the hill forest and lower montane forest of northern Borneo. Behavi ...

is endemic to the island of

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

. The

thick-billed heleia The thick-billed heleia (''Heleia crassirostris''), also known as the Flores white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in the Indonesian islands of Sumbawa and Flores. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropica ...

, occurs on

Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...

and

Sumbawa Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. Along with Lombok, it forms the province of West Nusa Tenggara, but there ...

. van Balen, B. (2017). Thick-billed White-eye (Heleia crassirostris). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from http://www.hbw.com/node/60250 on 27 March 2017). The genus ''Heleia'' was introduced in 1865 by the German ornithologist

Gustav Hartlaub Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub (8 November 1814 – 29 November 1900) was a German physician and ornithologist. Hartlaub was born in Bremen, and studied at Bonn and Berlin before graduating in medicine at Göttingen. In 1840, he began to study and co ...

to accommodate the

. The name is from

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

''eleia'', an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Greek scholar

Callimachus Callimachus (; ) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar and librarian who was active in Alexandria during the 3rd century BC. A representative of Ancient Greek literature of the Hellenistic period, he wrote over 800 literary works in a wide variety ...

. The genus contains ten species: *

Mees's white-eye Mees's white-eye (''Heleia javanica''), also known as the Javan grey-throated white-eye or grey-throated ibon, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Java and Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the weste ...

(''Heleia javanica'') * Grey-hooded white-eye (''Heleia pinaiae'') *

Pygmy white-eye The pygmy white-eye (''Heleia squamifrons''), also known as the pygmy ibon, is a species of bird in the white-eye family Zosteropidae. Distribution and habitat It is endemic to the hill forest and lower montane forest of northern Borneo. Behavi ...

(''Heleia squamifrons'') *

Mindanao white-eye The Mindanao white-eye (''Heleia goodfellowi''), also known as the black-masked white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. The specific epithet honours British zoological collector Walter Goodfellow. It is endemic to the Philip ...

(''Heleia goodfellowi'') *

Streak-headed white-eye The streak-headed white-eye (''Heleia squamiceps''), also known as the streaky-headed white-eye or streak-headed ibon, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its natural habitat In ecology, ...

(''Heleia squamiceps'') *

Cream-browed white-eye The cream-browed white-eye (''Heleia superciliaris''), also known as the cream-browed ibon or yellow-browed white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitat In ec ...

(''Heleia superciliaris'') * Crested white-eye (''Heleia dohertyi'') *

Spot-breasted heleia The spot-breasted heleia (''Heleia muelleri''), also known as the spot-breasted white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found on Timor island. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and sub ...

(''Heleia muelleri'') *

Thick-billed heleia The thick-billed heleia (''Heleia crassirostris''), also known as the Flores white-eye, is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in the Indonesian islands of Sumbawa and Flores. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropica ...

(''Heleia crassirostris'') *

Yellow-ringed white-eye The yellow-ringed white-eye (''Heleia wallacei'') is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist br ...

(''Heleia wallacei'')

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