Black-capped Babbler

SCI Name:  Pellorneum capistratum
Protonym:  Myiothera capistrata Pl.Col. livr.31 pl.185 fig.1
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Pellorneum
Taxonomy Code:  blcbab1
Type Locality:  Java.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PELLORNEUM
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Puff-throated Babbler P. ruficeps) Gr. πελλος pellos  dark-coloured, dusky; ορνεον orneon  bird  < ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Genus, PELLORNEUM*.   ...   Bill moderate, straight, somewhat conic; the tip notched.  Gonys ascending.  Frontal feathers small, rigid, directed forward.  Rictus bristled.  Wings very short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, graduated.  Tarsus and middle toe of equal length; lateral toes much shorter, equal.  Anterior claws very small, and but slightly curved.  Hinder toe shorter than the middle.  Anterior scales scarcely divided.   Type.—Pellorneum ruficeps, above brown, beneath fulvous white, striped with brown; chin white immaculate; front and crown rufous.  Inhabits India. MUS. NOST.   OBS.—This genus represents, or rather passes into Phyllastrephus; thus connecting the Crateropodinæ and the Brachypodinæ. From the former it is distinguished by its more slender thrush-like feet, its small slightly curved claws, &c. The general appearance of the only species I have yet seen, and which is from India, is that of a small thrush, but resembling a Timalia.   ...   *Th. πελλος fuscus, et ορνεον avis." (Swainson 1831).
Var. Pelorneum, Pellornium.
Synon. Bessethera, Cinclidia, Drymocataphus, Scotocichla.

capistratum / capistratus
L. capistratus  haltered  < capistrum  halter, muzzle, band  < capere  to hold.
● ex “Red-headed Parrakeet” of Edwards 1758-1764, and “Perruche à face bleu” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (Trichoglossus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-capped Babbler (Black-capped)
SCI Name: Pellorneum capistratum [nigrocapitatum Group]
PELLORNEUM
(Pellorneidae; Ϯ Puff-throated Babbler P. ruficeps) Gr. πελλος pellos  dark-coloured, dusky; ορνεον orneon  bird  < ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos  bird; "Genus, PELLORNEUM*.   ...   Bill moderate, straight, somewhat conic; the tip notched.  Gonys ascending.  Frontal feathers small, rigid, directed forward.  Rictus bristled.  Wings very short, much rounded.  Tail moderate, graduated.  Tarsus and middle toe of equal length; lateral toes much shorter, equal.  Anterior claws very small, and but slightly curved.  Hinder toe shorter than the middle.  Anterior scales scarcely divided.   Type.—Pellorneum ruficeps, above brown, beneath fulvous white, striped with brown; chin white immaculate; front and crown rufous.  Inhabits India. MUS. NOST.   OBS.—This genus represents, or rather passes into Phyllastrephus; thus connecting the Crateropodinæ and the Brachypodinæ. From the former it is distinguished by its more slender thrush-like feet, its small slightly curved claws, &c. The general appearance of the only species I have yet seen, and which is from India, is that of a small thrush, but resembling a Timalia.   ...   *Th. πελλος fuscus, et ορνεον avis." (Swainson 1831).
Var. Pelorneum, Pellornium.
Synon. Bessethera, Cinclidia, Drymocataphus, Scotocichla.

Black-capped Babbler (Rufous-browed)
SCI Name: Pellorneum capistratum capistratum
capistratum / capistratus
L. capistratus  haltered  < capistrum  halter, muzzle, band  < capere  to hold.
● ex “Red-headed Parrakeet” of Edwards 1758-1764, and “Perruche à face bleu” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (Trichoglossus).