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Swinhoe's white-eye (Zosterops simplex) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae. It is found in east China, north Vietnam, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

This species was formerly treated as a subspecies group of the warbling white-eye (Zosterops japonicus) but based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018, it was promoted to species rank.

There are five subspecies:

• Z. s. simplex R. Swinhoe, 1861 – east China, Taiwan and extreme northeast Vietnam
• Z. s. hainanus Hartert, 1923 – Hainan (off southeast China)
• Z. s. erwini (Chasen, 1935) – coastal Thai-Malay Peninsula, lowland Sumatra, Riau Islands, Bangka Island, Natuna Islands and lowland west Borneo
• Z. s. williamsoni Robinson & Kloss, 1919 – Gulf of Thailand coast and west Cambodia
• Z. s. salvadorii Meyer, AB & Wiglesworth, 1894 – Enggano Island (west Sumatra)

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