Brief Description
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 Appearance ¡G The body is small with obvious white eye-circle. The upper body is like yellow-green. The throat, the upper chest and the bottom of the tail were yellow. The other bottom of the body is about grayish white. Habitual Behavior ¡G They often act in the broadleaf forests, bamboo forest or the trees around the residence in group. They mainly eat little insects. In flowering season, people could see them hanging upside down to eat nectar and the fruits of parasitical trees. The sound is lovely, clear and melodious, they will forage and sing or sometimes fly and sing. They are so lively and docile that they will forage with other types of birds, such as Chinese Bulbul,Formosan Yuhina and Green-backed Tit. The nests they built are small and exquisite with different materials, such as new leaves, cotton, weeds, thin roots, pine needles, feathers, and lichens; sometimes they even used the thread of a spider web. They can lay three or four eggs once in a nest.
Brown Shrike is one of their natural enemies. Distribution ¡G It distributes from the south of Korea, Japan southward to the south of China, Southeast Asia and the north of Philippines; there are two subspecies in Taiwan, Z. j. batanis spreads at the area below the sea level of 1500m excluding Lanyu and Ludao.
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