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Reported by Peter Lobo, Christopher V. Kehoe, Paul C. Thomason, Michael C. Stocker, June E. Watt, Bukey Rai & Rabi Mekhola We were watching birds, after lunch, at the Nandan Pass...Upon playing-back the digital call of a Collared Owlet Glaucidium brodiei—to attract some bird species—we saw Yellow-browed Tits Sylviparus modestus, Yellow-cheeked Tits Machlolophus spilonotus, and Green-tailed Sunbirds Aethopyga nipalensis, and to their surprise, CVK & PCT saw two Chestnut-flanked White-eyes along with those other species. They alerted the rest of us immediately, and we all saw the birds before they flew upwards. CVK managed to get two photographs of the birds showing the diagnostic chestnut flank patch. The species was identified instantly, as we were familiar with the bird in Thailand. As seen in these photos, both individuals have well-defined chestnut patches on the flanks, and hence appear to be males. Reference Lobo, P., Kehoe, C. V., Thomason, P. C., Stocker, M. C., Watt, J. E., Rai, B., & Mekhola, R., In Press. Chestnut-flanked White-eye Zosterops erythropleurus from Mishmi Hills: An addition to the avifauna of South Asia. Indian BIRDS 14(3): 82 Links http://indianbirds.in/pdfs/14_3_LoboETAL_ChestnutflankedWhteEye.pdf