Yellow-bellied fantail

Yellow-bellied fantail
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Stenostiridae
Genus:	Chelidorhynx; Blyth, 1843
Species:	C. hypoxanthus
Binomial name
	Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus; (Blyth, 1843)
Synonyms
	Chelidorhynx hypoxantha

The yellow-bellied fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus), also known as the yellow-bellied fairy-fantail, is found in the Indian subcontinent, the Himalayas, and portions of Southeast Asia including Thailand, Vietnam, and Myanmar.^[2] It is an altitudinal migrant.^[3]

Description

It is about 8 cm in size. It is yellow below and has a black eye-stripe, white wing-bar and broad black tail tipped white.

It used to be placed in the family of the fantails (Rhipiduridae), but DNA analysis has shown it to be a close relative of the fairy flycatcher and it has therefore been transferred to the Stenostiridae (IOC World Bird List), in the revalidated monotypic genus Chelidorhynx.^[4]

It often gathers in mixed-species flocks, especially during winter, with leaf-warblers, tits, and black-faced warblers.^[3]

^ BirdLife International (2016). "Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22706775A94089360. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22706775A94089360.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.{{cite iucn}}: old-form url (help)
^ "Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive". doi:10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01. S2CID 216411078. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b Boles, W., 2020. Yellow-bellied Fairy-Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. Webpage URL: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yebfan1.01.
^ Fuchs, J. R. M.; Pasquet, E.; Couloux, A.; Fjeldså, J.; Bowie, R. C. K. (2009). "A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: Biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (2): 384–93. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.015. PMID 19576994.