Pellorneum Explained

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

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

• 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.

Notes and References

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