Another name for eye stripe

[SandyBeds]

Hi all, I cannot remember the name for the eye stripe in a bird (a posher word than eyestripe). Below the supercilium. Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Sandy

[loripo]

supercilium? (I just looked it up, but I think there was another, supraloral)
Check in your birdie dictionary
(I suppose it means the same as supercilious - raised eyebrows!)

[SandyBeds]

Thanks for helping loripo, but no, below the supercilium. I know what the supraloral stripe is (a stripe only present above the lores, that doesn't extend behind the eye).

But I feel sure that there is/should be a more technical term for a stripe that is lower than these.

I'd say loral stripe, but that doesn't extend far enough. Is there not a term for a stripe that appears to run through the eye?

Or is it just plain old eyestripe, LOL?

[loripo]

http://www.avianweb.com/supercilium.html

Odd but they seem to have run out of a name other than eyeline or eyestripe!
There is postocular - from the eye to the side of the head. I would have expected it to be trans -something...
Over to the experts I think

[Jason Green]

Hi Sandy,

Have a look at this... though I would have said Supercilium too. Supercilium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Take care,

Jason

[valleyforge]

My copy of the Ornithologist's Dictionary (Erritzoe, Kampp, Winker & Frith - 2007) just has it as 'eye stripe' or 'eyeline' ... I guess not everything needs a Latin name.

[SandyBeds]

Thanks people, you have all been very helpful. God knows what word I'm thinking of.

Plain old eyestripe it is.

[loripo]

How about this one? Quote from a pdf document on Chinese bords:
At Ping Shan on January 21st a warbler new to our list was identified
as the Chinese Yellow Bellied Bush Warbler. A little bird, length 4
inches, uniform brown above was.hed with olive green; it has a bright yellow
supercilium and a dark brown-green trans-ocular stripe. The under parts
are yellow, paler on the throat and on the centre of the abdomen; the under

If there are post-ocular & pre-ocular there had to be a trans ditto!

[SandyBeds]

Excellent detective work loripo!