Yuhina

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image_caption = White-collared yuhina
Yuhina diademata

| taxon = Yuhina

| authority = Hodgson, 1836

| type_species = Yuhina gularis (stripe-throated yuhina)

| type_species_authority = Hodgson, 1836

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Yuhina is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

The genus Yuhina was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the stripe-throated yuhina as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Hodgson | first=Brian Houghton | author-link=Brian Houghton Hodgson | date=1836 | title=Notices of the ornithology of Nepal | journal=Asiatic Researches | volume=19 | pages=143–192 [165] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43118058 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=420 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486609 }} The genus name is from Nepali language.{{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=412 }} The genus was formerly placed in the family Timaliidae. It was moved to Zosteropidae based on results of molecular phylogenetic studies.{{Cite journal | last=Cibois | first=Alice | date=2003 | title=Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae) | journal=The Auk | volume=120 | issue=1 | pages=35–54 | doi=10.1093/auk/120.1.35 | doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal | last1=Moyle | first1=R.G. | last2=Filardi | first2=C.E. | last3=Smith | first3=C.E. | last4=Diamond | first4=J. | date=2009 | title=Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a 'great speciator' | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | volume=106 | issue=6 | pages=1863–1868 | doi=10.1073/pnas.0809861105 | pmid=19181851 | pmc=2644129 | bibcode=2009PNAS..106.1863M | doi-access=free }}{{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 2021 | title=Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=17 June 2021 }}

The genus contains the following seven species:

• Black-chinned yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta)
• Taiwan yuhina (Yuhina brunneiceps)
• Whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis)
• Burmese yuhina (Yuhina humilis)
• White-naped yuhina (Yuhina bakeri)
• Stripe-throated yuhina (Yuhina gularis)
• Rufous-vented yuhina (Yuhina occipitalis)

The white-bellied erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly assigned to this genus, with the common name "white-bellied yuhina".