White-eyed thrush

The white-eyed thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae that is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

Taxonomy

The white-eyed thrush was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus jamaicensis. Gmelin based his account on the "Jamaica thrush" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John [Latham (ornithologist)|John Latham] in his multi-volume work A General Synopsis of Birds. Latham had examined a specimen in the collection of the British Museum. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.