'' 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 generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their ...

birds in the crow and jay family,

Corvidae Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan Family (biology), family of Songbird, oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, Rook (bird), rooks, magpies, jackdaws, jays, treepies, choughs, and Nutcracker (bird), nutcrackers ...

. 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 (scansorial), but others are exclusively arboreal. The hab ...

and rarely come to the ground to feed. The generic name is derived from the Greek 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 Asia, South and Southeast Asia. The generic name is derived from the Greek language, Greek words ''dendron'', mean ...

'', is an all-black

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

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

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1415169 Bird genera Birds of Indochina Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot