Brown-capped Babbler

SCI Name:  Pellorneum fuscocapillus
Protonym:  Dr[ymocataphus]. fuscocapillus J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 18 p.815
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Pellorneum
Taxonomy Code:  bncbab1
Type Locality:  Ceylon; inferentially restricted to ''S. W. Ceylon,'' by Baker, 1921, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 27 (3), p. 26, and here further restricted to Colombo.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1849
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

fuscocapilla / fuscocapillum / fuscocapillus
L. fuscus dusky, dark; -capillus headed < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Chorlito pardo mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 399 (syn. Tringa flavipes).

SUBSPECIES

Brown-capped Babbler (babaulti)
SCI Name: Pellorneum fuscocapillus babaulti
babaulti
Guy René Élie Roger Babault (1888-1963) French zoologist, collector, explorer in the Himalayas, Ceylon, Kenya, Belgian Congo and Uganda (subsp. Pellorneum fuscocapillus, syn. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus graueri).

Brown-capped Babbler (fuscocapillus)
SCI Name: Pellorneum fuscocapillus fuscocapillus
fuscocapilla / fuscocapillum / fuscocapillus
L. fuscus dusky, dark; -capillus headed < capillus hair of the head.
● ex “Chorlito pardo mayor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 399 (syn. Tringa flavipes).

Brown-capped Babbler (scortillum)
SCI Name: Pellorneum fuscocapillus scortillum
scortillum
L. scortillum young harlot < dim. scortum prostitute.