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  • Calliope

    Calliope is a genus of passerine birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
    Previously placed in the genus Luscinia.
    The genus Calliope name from classical Greek meaning beautiful-voiced.

    1/ Siberian rubythroat (Oanh cổ đỏ, Calliope calliope)

  • Larvivora

    Larvivora is a genus of small passerine birds belonging to the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that occur in central and eastern Asia.
    The word Larvivora comes from the Neo-Latin larva meaning caterpillar and -vorus meaning eating (vorace to devour).

    1/ Rufous-tailed robin  (Oanh cổ trắng, Larvivora sibilans)
    Also pseudorobin, red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's red-tailed robin, Swinhoe's robin, Swinhoe's pseudorobin, Swinhoe's nightingale or whistling nightingale.
    sibilans is Latin for "whistling".

    2/ Siberian Blue Robin (Oanh lưng xanh, Larvivora cyane)

    3/ Japanese robin (Larvivora akahige, Hoét mặt đỏ)

  • Muscicapidae

    The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia).
    Muscicapa comes from the Latin musca meaning a fly, and capere to catch.

    Formerly, three families Muscicapidae, Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Turdidae (thrushes) were placed in the Muscicapidae.
    The extended flycatcher family that also included Timaliidae (Old World babblers) and Monarchidae (Monarch flycatchers). 

    Later  DNA–DNA hybridization studies found the family should be split into several separate families.

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