The shortwings are colourful, medium-sized, mostly insectivorous, Old World Flycatcher family Muscicapidae. Some taxonomists place the birds in the in the genus the thrush family Turdidae.

1/ Gould's Shortwing (Hoét đuôi cụt bụng vằn, Heteroxenicus stellatus)
2/ Lesser Shortwing (Hoét đuôi cụt mày trắng, Brachypteryx leucophris)
3/ Javan Shortwing (Hoét đuôi cụt xanh, Brachypteryx montana)