Cyornis is a genus of birds in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae most of which are native to Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy The genus Cyornis was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1843. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify which he considered to be the type species. The type was subsequently designated by George Gray in 1855 as Phoenicura rubeculoides Vigors, 1831, the blue-throated blue flycatcher. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with ornis meaning "bird".
Species The genus contains the following 32 species:
Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Pale blue flycatcher Cyornis unicolor Southeast Asia Chinese blue flycatcher Cyornis glaucicomans central China; winters to the Malay Peninsula Blue-throated blue flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides Himalayas and western Indochina; winters to southern Western Ghats and Sri Lanka Hainan blue flycatcher Cyornis hainanus southern China, Hainan and Indochina Bornean blue flycatcher Cyornis superbus Borneo Malaysian blue flycatcher Cyornis turcosus Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo Palawan blue flycatcher Cyornis lemprieri Palawan - Sunda blue flycatcher Cyornis caerulatus Borneo, Sumatra - Blue-breasted blue flycatcher Cyornis herioti Luzon - Rufous-breasted blue flycatcher Cyornis camarinensis Luzon and Catanduanes - Philippine jungle flycatcher Cyornis ruficauda Philippines - Sulu jungle flycatcher Cyornis ocularis Sulu Archipelago - Crocker jungle flycatcher Cyornis ruficrissa montane Borneo White-bellied blue flycatcher Cyornis pallidipes Western Ghats Brown-chested jungle flycatcher Cyornis brunneatus southeast China; winters to Malay Peninsula - Nicobar jungle flycatcher Cyornis nicobaricus Nicobar Islands - Grey-chested jungle flycatcher Cyornis umbratilis Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo Large blue flycatcher Cyornis magnirostris eastern Himalayas; winters to Kra Isthmus Tickell's blue flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae India and Sri Lanka Indochinese blue flycatcher Cyornis sumatrensis Indochina Hill blue flycatcher Cyornis whitei Yunnan and Indochina Mangrove blue flycatcher Cyornis rufigastra coastal Malesia Sulawesi blue flycatcher Cyornis omissus Sulawesi - Kalao blue flycatcher Cyornis kalaoensis Kalao, Sulawesi - Javan blue flycatcher Cyornis banyumas Java Dayak blue flycatcher Cyornis montanus Borneo Meratus blue flycatcher Cyornis kadayangensis Meratus Mountains Pale-chinned blue flycatcher Cyornis poliogenys Northeast India and sparsely across east India and Yunnan Fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher Cyornis olivaceus Kra Isthmus, Sumatra, Java, Riau and northeastern Borneo - Banggai jungle flycatcher Cyornis pelingensis Peleng - Sula jungle flycatcher Cyornis colonus Sula Islands - Rück's blue flycatcher Cyornis ruckii northeastern Sumatra
Seven of the above species, all with "jungle flycatcher" in their English names, were previously placed in the genus Rhinomyias but were moved to Cyornis based on the results of a 2010 molecular phylogenetic study. There are also "jungle flycatchers" in the genus Vauriella.
References
Further reading Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11: Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. Lynx Edicions. .