• Source: Brachypteryx

      • Brachypteryx is a genus of passerine birds in the family Muscicapidae containing ten species known as shortwings, that occurs in southeast Asia.
      Shortwings are small birds with long legs, finely pointed bills, short tails and short rounded wings. They are shy elusive ground-dwellers that generally prefer the cover of dense undergrowth.
      The genus Brachypteryx was introduced by the American naturalist Thomas Horsfield in 1821. The word comes from the classical Greek brakhus mean "short" and pterux meaning "wing". The genus was previously placed in the thrush family Turdidae but in 2010 two separate molecular phylogenetic studies found that species in the genus were more closely related to members of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
      The genus contains the following ten species:

      Rusty-bellied shortwing, Brachypteryx hyperythra
      Lesser shortwing, Brachypteryx leucophris
      Himalayan shortwing, Brachypteryx cruralis
      Chinese shortwing, Brachypteryx sinensis
      Taiwan shortwing, Brachypteryx goodfellowi
      Philippine shortwing, Brachypteryx poliogyna – split from B. montana
      Bornean shortwing, Brachypteryx erythrogyna – split from B. montana
      Sumatran shortwing, Brachypteryx saturata – split from . montana
      Javan shortwing, Brachypteryx montana – formerly the white-browed shortwing
      Flores shortwing, Brachypteryx floris – split from B. montana
      Whilst the Javan and rusty-bellied shortwings show strong sexual plumage dimorphism, the lesser shortwing is sexually monomorphic.
      Three other species were formerly placed in Brachypteryx:

      Great shortwing, Heinrichia calligyna
      Nilgiri blue robin or Nilgiri shortwing Myiomela major
      Gould's shortwing, Heteroxenicus stellata


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