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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".

Chinese shortwing 
(Brachypteryx sinensis)

The Chinese shortwing (Brachypteryx sinensis) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae.

This bird species is found in southern China.

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".

Himalayan shortwing 
(Brachypteryx cruralis)

The Himalayan shortwing (Brachypteryx cruralis) is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae.
The bird is found in South-east Asia from the Himalayas to southern China, northwestern Thailand and northern Indochina.

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".
cruralis Latin cruralis of the leg (crus, cruris shin).

Javan Shortwing 
(Hoét đuôi cụt xanh, Brachypteryx montana)

The Javan shortwing (Brachypteryx montana) (formerly the white-browed shortwing) is a species of bird of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The bird species is endemic to the island of Java.

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".
The specific epithet montana means "mountainous" in Latin, originating from the adjective montanus (of mountains) and noun mons (mountain). 

Lesser Shortwing 
(Hoét đuôi cụt mày trắng, Brachypteryx leucophris)

The family name Muscicapidae is from Muscicapa which comes from the Latin musca, a fly and capere, to catch.

Some consider the Langbiang Lesser Shortwing (Brachypteryx leucophris langbianensis) a subspecies of the Lesser Shortwing.

The genus Brachypteryx from the classical Greek: brakhus mean "short" and pterux meaning "wing".

The lesser shortwing, a species of chat, is now classified in the family Muscicapidae.

leuco- From Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).