The silver-throated bushtit or silver-throated tit (Aegithalos glaucogularis) is a species of passerine bird in the family Aegithalidae, widespread throughout the temperate forests of Central, East and parts of North and Western China.

A paper on the silver-throated bushtit by the English naturalist Frederic Moore was read at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on 27 June 1854.

[2] The English ornithologist John Gould then included the silver-throated bushtit in his book The Birds of Asia and cited Moore's paper.

Gould used Moore's specific name but a different genus to obtain the binomial name Mecistura glaucogularis.

[5] The silver-throated bushtit was formerly considered a subspecies of the long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) but its plumage is distinctive and there are significant genetic differences.