Platysteira cyanea; Print; The brown-throated wattle-eye (Platysteira cyanea); also known as the common wattle-eye or scarlet-spectacled wattle-eye; is a small; insectivorous passerine bird. The wattle-eyes were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae; but are now usually separated from that group.; 1838