Pellorneum

Pellorneum is a genus of passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Some of its species were formerly placed in the genus Trichastoma.

Pellorneum
Javan black-capped babbler Pellorneum capistratum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Pellorneidae
Genus:	Pellorneum Swainson, 1832
Type species
Pellorneum ruficeps Swainson, 1832
Synonyms
Trichastoma Blyth, 1842

The genus Pellorneum was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson with Pellorneum ruficeps, the puff-throated babbler, as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".^[3]

The genus contains the following 18 species:^[4]

• Puff-throated babbler (Pellorneum ruficeps)
• Brown-capped babbler (Pellorneum fuscocapillus)
• Marsh babbler (Pellorneum palustre)
• Malayan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum nigrocapitatum)
• Javan black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratum)
• Bornean black-capped babbler (Pellorneum capistratoides)
• Mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense) – "short-tailed babbler" before split
• Glissando babbler (Pellorneum saturatum) – split from P. malaccense
• Leaflitter babbler (Pellorneum poliogene) – split from P. malaccense
• Ashy-headed babbler (Pellorneum cinereiceps)
• Spot-throated babbler (Pellorneum albiventre)
• Buff-breasted babbler (Pellorneum tickelli)
• Sumatran babbler (Pellorneum buettikoferi)
• Temminck's babbler (Pellorneum pyrrogenys)
• Malayan swamp babbler (Pellorneum rostratum) – "white-chested babbler" before split
• Bornean swamp babbler (Pellorneum macropterum) – split from P. rostratum
• Ferruginous babbler (Pellorneum bicolor)
• Sulawesi babbler (Pellorneum celebense)

References

1. Swainson, William; Richardson, J. (1831). Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America. Vol. 2: The Birds. London: J. Murray. p. 487. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832.
2. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 240.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas". IOC World Bird List Version 14.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 30 January 2024.

• Collar, N. J. & Robson, C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.