The pale white-eye also known as Kenya white-eye[2] (Zosterops flavilateralis) is a bird species in the family Zosteropidae.

It is found in Kenya, eastern Tanzania, southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia.

The pale white-eye was formally described in 1892 by the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow under the current binomial name Zosterops flavilateralis.

[3][4] The specific epithet flavilateralis combines Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with lateralis meaning "of the sides".

[5] The pale white-eye was formerly treated as a subspecies of the Abyssinian white-eye (Zosterops abyssinicus) but is now treated as a separate species.