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Birds of East Asia & Mainland Southeast Asia Glossary of Species Names in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese |
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(鹟科 Wēng
kē 
ヒタキ科
Hitaki ka Họ đớp ruồi)
The Muscicapidae is a large family which originally subsumed the thrushes (Turdinae), babblers (Timiliinae), warblers (Sylviinae), and flycatchers (Muscicapinae). Under Sibley and Monroe, the family has been considerably slimmed down to include only two branches, the thrushes (Turdinae) and flycatchers (Muscicapinae). There has also been a large rearrangement of these two subfamilies whereby the robins, redstarts, chats, and wheatears have been transferred from the Turdinae to the Muscicapinae.
Turdinae (thrushes)
Muscicapinae (flycatchers, niltavas, robins, redstarts, chats, wheatears)
The distribution of the Muscicapidae in East Asia can be seen at Tzung-Su Ding's Distribution of the MUSCICAPIDAE in East Asia.
