Cyornis

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Cyornis

| image = Blue throated flycatcher thattekadu.jpg

| image_caption = Blue-throated blue flycatcher (C. rubeculoides)

| taxon = Cyornis

| authority = Blyth, 1843

| type_species = Phoenicura rubeculoides{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=183 |title= Muscicapidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-15}}

| type_species_authority = 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.{{ cite journal | last=Blyth | first=Edward | author-link=Edward Blyth | year=1843 | title=Mr. Blyth's monthly Report for December Meeting, 1842, with Addenda subsequently appended | journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal | volume=12 | issue=143 | pages=925–1011 [940–941] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40060929 }} The type was subsequently designated by George Gray in 1855 as Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831, the blue-throated blue flycatcher.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | page=53 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136692 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Cottrell | editor2-first=G. William | year=1986 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=11 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=355 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14484056 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with ornis meaning "bird".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=129 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n129/mode/1up }}

Species

The genus contains the following 32 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2023 | title=Chats, Old World flycatchers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/chats/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=4 February 2023}}

Image	Common Name	Scientific Name	Distribution
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120px	Pale blue flycatcher	Cyornis unicolor	Southeast Asia
120px	Chinese blue flycatcher	Cyornis glaucicomans	central China; winters to the Malay Peninsula
120px	Blue-throated blue flycatcher	Cyornis rubeculoides	Himalayas and western Indochina; winters to southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
120px	Hainan blue flycatcher	Cyornis hainanus	southern China, Hainan and Indochina
120px	Bornean blue flycatcher	Cyornis superbus	Borneo
120px	Malaysian blue flycatcher	Cyornis turcosus	Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo
120px	Palawan blue flycatcher	Cyornis lemprieri	Palawan
-	Sunda blue flycatcher	Cyornis caerulatus	Suna blue flycatcher
-	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
120px	White-bellied blue flycatcher	Cyornis pallidipes	Western Ghats
120px	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
120px	Large blue flycatcher	Cyornis magnirostris	eastern Himalayas; winters to Kra Isthmus
120px	Tickell's blue flycatcher	Cyornis tickelliae	India and Sri Lanka
120px	Indochinese blue flycatcher	Cyornis sumatrensis	Indochina
120px	Hill blue flycatcher	Cyornis whitei	Yunnan and Indochina
120px	Mangrove blue flycatcher	Cyornis rufigastra	coastal Malesia
120px	Sulawesi blue flycatcher	Cyornis omissus	Sulawesi
-	Kalao blue flycatcher	Cyornis kalaoensis	Kalao, Sulawesi
-	Javan blue flycatcher	Cyornis banyumas	Java
120px	Dayak blue flycatcher	Cyornis montanus	Borneo
120px	Meratus blue flycatcher	Cyornis kadayangensis	Meratus Mountains
120px	Pale-chinned blue flycatcher	Cyornis poliogenys	Northeast India and sparsely across east India and Yunnan
120px	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.{{ cite journal | last1=Sangster | first1=G. | last2=Alström | first2=P. | last3=Forsmark | first3=E. | last4=Olsson | first4=U. | year=2010 | title=Multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of Old World chats and flycatcher reveals extensive paraphyly at family, subfamily and genus level (Aves: Muscicapidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=57 | issue=1 | pages=380–392 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.07.008 | pmid=20656044| bibcode=2010MolPE..57..380S }} There are also "jungle flycatchers" in the genus Vauriella.

Cyornis

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