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".