'' Crypsirina '' is a small genus of long-tailed

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...

birds in the crow and jay family,

Corvidae Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In colloquial English, they are known as the crow family or corvids. Cu ...

. The two species are highly

arboreal Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose nu ...

and rarely come to the ground to feed. The generic name is derived from the

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words ''kruptō'', meaning "to conceal," and ''rhis'' or ''rhinos'', meaning "nostrils". They are: The racket-tailed treepie, formerly placed in ''

Dendrocitta ''Dendrocitta'' is a genus of long-tailed passerine birds in the crow and jay family, Corvidae. They are resident in tropical South and Southeast Asia. The generic name is derived from the Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, ...

'', is an all-black

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n species. The grey and black hooded treepie is endemic to

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1415169 Bird genera Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot