Pyctorhis sinensis The yellow-eyed babbler (Chrysomma sinense) is a passerine bird native to South and Southeast Asia.

[2] The yellow-eyed babbler was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

[3] Gmelin based his account on the "Chinese titmouse" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham in his book A General Synopsis of Birds.

[9] The population across much of India, hypoleucum, has yellow nostrils (as with the nominate subspecies) and is paler in plumage.

[10][11] The range of the yellow-eyed babbler extends from Pakistan through India, Nepal, Sri Lanka to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Viet Nam and China.

[1] The usual habitat is grassy or thorny scrub both in dry and wet regions as well as farmland.

[12] Like babblers, these birds are usually seen in small groups of five to fifteen, especially in the non-breeding season.

They are usually found inside bushes, emerging up to the top of a stem and then diving back into cover to forage.

[19] Known in parts of northern India as gulab chashm meaning "yellow spectacles", they were sometimes kept as cagebirds.