Brachypteryx is a genus of passerine birds in the family Muscicapidae containing ten species known as shortwings, that occurs in southeast Asia.
1/ Lesser Shortwing
Brachypteryx leucophris
Hoét đuôi cụt mày trắng
2/ Himalayan shortwing
(Brachypteryx cruralis)
3/ Chinese shortwing
(Brachypteryx sinensis)
4/ Javan Shortwing
(Hoét đuôi cụt xanh, Brachypteryx montana)
Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca meaning a fly, and capere to catch.
The genus Brachypteryx from the classical Greek brakhus mean "short" and pterux meaning "wing".











