The hill blue flycatcher (''Cyornis whitei'') is a species of

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in the family

Muscicapidae The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia), with the exception of several vagrants and two species, Bluethroat (''Luscinia svecica)'' and Norther ...

. It is found in southern

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, northeastern India and

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It was treated as a subspecies of ''

Cyornis banyumas The Javan blue flycatcher (''Cyornis banyumas'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is endemic to the Indonesian islands of Java and Panaitan. The Dayak blue flycatcher (''Cyornis montanus'') of Borneo, which was formerly conside ...

'' before molecular phylogenetic studies found them to be distinct.

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hill blue flycatcher The hill blue flycatcher (''Cyornis whitei'') is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in southern China, northeastern India and Southeast Asia. It was treated as a subspecies of ''Cyornis banyumas'' before molecular phyloge ...

Birds of Southeast Asia Birds of Yunnan

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