Yuhina Explained

Yuhina is a genus of birds in the white-eye family Zosteropidae.

The genus Yuhina was introduced in 1836 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the stripe-throated yuhina as the type species.^{[1] [2]} The genus name is from Nepali language.^{[1] [3]} The genus was formerly placed in the family Timaliidae. It was moved to Zosteropidae based on results of molecular phylogenetic studies.^{[4] [5] [6]}

The genus contains the following seven species:^[6]

• Black-chinned yuhina (Yuhina nigrimenta)
• Taiwan yuhina (Yuhina brunneiceps)
• Whiskered yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis)
• Burmese yuhina (Yuhina humilis)
• White-naped yuhina (Yuhina bakeri)
• Stripe-throated yuhina (Yuhina gularis)
• Rufous-vented yuhina (Yuhina occipitalis)

The white-bellied erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca) was formerly assigned to this genus, with the common name "white-bellied yuhina".

Notes and References

1. Hodgson . Brian Houghton . Brian Houghton Hodgson . 1836 . Notices of the ornithology of Nepal . Asiatic Researches . 19 . 143–192 [165] .
2. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Paynter . Raymond A. Jr . 1964 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 10 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 420 .
3. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 412 .
4. Cibois . Alice . 2003 . Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeny of Babblers (Timaliidae) . The Auk . 120 . 1 . 35–54 . 10.1093/auk/120.1.35 . free.
5. Moyle . R.G. . Filardi . C.E. . Smith . C.E. . Diamond . J. . 2009 . Explosive Pleistocene diversification and hemispheric expansion of a 'great speciator' . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 106 . 6 . 1863–1868 . 10.1073/pnas.0809861105 . 19181851 . 2644129 . 2009PNAS..106.1863M . free .
6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . January 2021 . Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes . IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 17 June 2021 .