Tarsiger is a genus of six species of bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

s in the family Muscicapidae. They are small, mostly brightly coloured insectivorous

Insectivore

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 birds native to Asia

Asia

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 and (one species) northeastern Europe

Europe

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; four of the six species are confined to the Sino-Himalayan mountain system. The genus has sometimes been included within the related genus Luscinia

Luscinia

Luscinia is a genus of smallish passerine birds, containing the nightingales and relatives. Formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, they are now considered to be Old World flycatchers of the chat subfamily...

, but the species have been found to form a distinct monophyletic

Monophyly

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 group.

The genus contains the following species:

• White-browed Bush Robin (Tarsiger indicus)
• Rufous-breasted Bush Robin (Tarsiger hyperythrus)
• Collared Bush Robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae)
• Red-flanked Bluetail
  Red-flanked Bluetail
  The Red-flanked Bluetail , also known as the Orange-flanked Bush-robin, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae...
  
   (Tarsiger cyanurus)
• Himalayan Bluetail
  Himalayan Bluetail
  The Himalayan Bluetail or Himalayan Red-flanked Bush-robin is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.It is a short-distance altitudinal migrant species, breeding in...
  
   (Tarsiger rufilatus)
• Golden Bush Robin (Tarsiger chrysaeus)

Until recently, the Himalayan Bluetail was treated as a subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

of the Red-flanked Bluetail. It was split on the basis of its more intense plumage colours, and its ecology and behaviour, being a short-distance altitudinal migrant not a long distance migrant.