Belongs within: Sylviidae.
Paradoxornis, parrotbills, is a genus of small, long-tailed songbirds with heavy beaks found in southern and eastern Asia.
Paradoxornis Gould 1836B94
|--+--Chamaea Gambel 1847BKB15, B94 [Chamaeinae, Chamaeini]
| | `--C. fasciataBKB15
| `--+--P. gularisBKB15
| | |--P. g. gularisGC09
| | |--P. g. fokiensisVP89
| | `--P. g. transfluvialisGC09
| `--P. guttaticollisBKB15
`--+--+--P. alphonsianusBKB15
| `--P. webbianusBKB15
`--+--P. davidianusBKB15
`--P. nipalensisBKB15
Paradoxornis incertae sedis:
P. atrosuperciliarisJT12
P. brunneusJT12
P. conspicillatusJT12
P. flavirostrisJT12
P. fulvifronsJT12
P. heudeiJT12
P. margaritaeJT12
P. paradoxusJT12
P. przewalskiiJT12
P. ruficepsJT12 [=Suthora ruficepsS89]
P. unicolorJT12
P. verreauxiJT12
|--P. v. verreauxiGC09
`--P. v. craddockiGC09
P. zappeyiJT12
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.
[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.
[GC09] Gelang, M., A. Cibois, E. Pasquet, U. Olsson, P. Alström & P. G. P. Ericson. 2009. Phylogeny of babblers (Aves, Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification. Zoologica Scripta 38: 225–236.
[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.
[S89] Salvadori, T. 1889. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea nella Birmania e nelle regioni vicine. XIX.—Uccelli raccolti nei Monti Carin a nord-est di Tounghoo, nel Pegù presso Rangoon e Tounghoo e nel Tenasserim presso Malewoon. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2a, 7: 369–438.
[VP89] Viney, C., & K. Phillipps. 1989. Birds of Hong Kong 5th ed. Government Printer: Hong Kong.