see text Zosterornis is a genus of passerine birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

The five species in the genus are endemic to the Philippines.

The genus Zosterornis was introduced in 1894 by the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant to accommodate his newly described species, the chestnut-faced babbler, which thus becomes the type species.

[3] These species were formerly included in the genus Stachyris in the Old World babblers family Timaliidae.

[4] They were moved to their own genus Zosterornis in the white-eye family Zosteropidae based on molecular phylogenetic studies published in the first decade of the 21st century.