Pellorneum

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pellor capist 061116 1248 ltn.jpg

| image_caption = Javan black-capped babbler
Pellorneum capistratum

| taxon = Pellorneum

| display_parents = 3

| authority = Swainson, 1832

| type_species = Pellorneum ruficeps

| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1832

| synonyms = Trichastoma Blyth, 1842

}}

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.{{ cite book | last1=Swainson | first1=William | author1-link=William Swainson | last2=Richardson | first2=J. | author2-link=John Richardson (naturalist) | year=1831 | title=Fauna Boreali-Americana, or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America | volume=2: The Birds | publisher=J. Murray | location=London | page=487 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41549932 }} The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832.{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=240 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486429 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=296 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n1296/mode/1up }}

The genus contains the following 18 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=December 2023 | title=Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/babblers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=30 January 2024}}

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Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
125px	Puff-throated babbler	Pellorneum ruficeps	South Asia, Yunna, and Indochina
125px	Brown-capped babbler	Pellorneum fuscocapillus	Sri Lanka
125px	Marsh babbler	Pellorneum palustre	Northeast India
125px	Malayan black-capped babbler	Pellorneum nigrocapitatum	western Malesia
-	Javan black-capped babbler	Pellorneum capistratum	Java
125px	Bornean black-capped babbler	Pellorneum capistratoides	Borneo
125px	Mourning babbler	Pellorneum malaccense	Malesia
-	Glissando babbler	Pellorneum saturatum	Bangka Belitung Islands
-	Leaflitter babbler	Pellorneum poliogene	Borneo
125px	Ashy-headed babbler	Pellorneum cinereiceps	Palawan
125px	Spot-throated babbler	Pellorneum albiventre	Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina
125px	Buff-breasted babbler	Pellorneum tickelli	Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina
-	Sumatran babbler	Pellorneum buettikoferi	Bukit Barisan foothills
125px	Temminck's babbler	Pellorneum pyrrogenys	montane Java and Borneo
-	Malayan swamp babbler	Pellorneum rostratum	Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Riau, Lingga and Belitung
125px	Bornean swamp babbler	Pellorneum macropterum	Borneo and Banggi Island
125px	Ferruginous babbler	Pellorneum bicolor	Malesia
125px	Sulawesi babbler	Pellorneum celebense	Sulawesi