Cyornis

Cyornis
File:Blue throated flycatcher thattekadu.jpg
Blue-throated blue flycatcher (C. rubeculoides)
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Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Muscicapidae
Genus:	Cyornis Blyth, 1843
Type species
Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831
Synonyms
Rhinomyias Sharpe, 1879

Cyornis is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae most of which are native to Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

The genus Cyornis was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify which he considered to be the type species. The type was subsequently designated by George Gray in 1855 as Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831, the blue-throated blue flycatcher. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with ornis meaning "bird".

Species

The genus contains the following 32 species:

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
File:Pale Blue Flycatcher 0A2A0654.jpg	Pale blue flycatcher	Cyornis unicolor	Southeast Asia
	Chinese blue flycatcher	Cyornis glaucicomans	central China; winters to the Malay Peninsula
	Blue-throated blue flycatcher	Cyornis rubeculoides	Himalayas and western Indochina; winters to southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
	Hainan blue flycatcher	Cyornis hainanus	southern China, Hainan and Indochina
	Bornean blue flycatcher	Cyornis superbus	Borneo
	Malaysian blue flycatcher	Cyornis turcosus	Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo
File:Palawan Blue Flycatcher F (cropped).jpg	Palawan blue flycatcher	Cyornis lemprieri	Palawan
-	Sunda blue flycatcher	Cyornis caerulatus	Borneo, Sumatra
-	Blue-breasted blue flycatcher	Cyornis herioti	Luzon
-	Rufous-breasted blue flycatcher	Cyornis camarinensis	Luzon and Catanduanes
-	Philippine jungle flycatcher	Cyornis ruficauda	Philippines
-	Sulu jungle flycatcher	Cyornis ocularis	Sulu Archipelago
-	Crocker jungle flycatcher	Cyornis ruficrissa	montane Borneo
File:White-bellied Blue Flycatcher SM.jpg	White-bellied blue flycatcher	Cyornis pallidipes	Western Ghats
File:Cyornis brunneatus 4G4A5677.jpg	Brown-chested jungle flycatcher	Cyornis brunneatus	southeast China; winters to Malay Peninsula
-	Nicobar jungle flycatcher	Cyornis nicobaricus	Nicobar Islands
-	Grey-chested jungle flycatcher	Cyornis umbratilis	Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo
File:Cyornis magnirostris, Mishmi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh 1.jpg	Large blue flycatcher	Cyornis magnirostris	eastern Himalayas; winters to Kra Isthmus
File:Tickell's Blue Flycatcher, Rangantithu, Karnataka, India.jpg	Tickell's blue flycatcher	Cyornis tickelliae	India and Sri Lanka
File:Indochinese Blue Flycatcher (male) 0A2A5604.jpg	Indochinese blue flycatcher	Cyornis sumatrensis	Indochina
File:HILL-BLUE-FLYCATCHER-DOSDEWA.jpg	Hill blue flycatcher	Cyornis whitei	Yunnan and Indochina
File:Cyornis rufigastra 172572023.jpg	Mangrove blue flycatcher	Cyornis rufigastra	coastal Malesia
File:Cyornis omissus.jpg	Sulawesi blue flycatcher	Cyornis omissus	Sulawesi
-	Kalao blue flycatcher	Cyornis kalaoensis	Kalao, Sulawesi
-	Javan blue flycatcher	Cyornis banyumas	Java
File:Dayak Blue Flycatcher male 0A2A7166.jpg	Dayak blue flycatcher	Cyornis montanus	Borneo
File:Cyornis kadayangensis male.jpg	Meratus blue flycatcher	Cyornis kadayangensis	Meratus Mountains
File:Cyornis poliogenys.jpg	Pale-chinned blue flycatcher	Cyornis poliogenys	Northeast India and sparsely across east India and Yunnan
File:Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher 0A2A5202.jpg	Fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher	Cyornis olivaceus	Kra Isthmus, Sumatra, Java, Riau and northeastern Borneo
-	Banggai jungle flycatcher	Cyornis pelingensis	Peleng
-	Sula jungle flycatcher	Cyornis colonus	Sula Islands
-	Rück's blue flycatcher	Cyornis ruckii	northeastern Sumatra

Seven of the above species, all with "jungle flycatcher" in their English names, were previously placed in the genus Rhinomyias but were moved to Cyornis based on the results of a 2010 molecular phylogenetic study. There are also "jungle flycatchers" in the genus Vauriella.

Further reading

• Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. .