Buff-breasted Babbler

SCI Name:  Pellorneum tickelli
Protonym:  Pellornium Tickelli J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 28 p.414
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Pellorneum
Taxonomy Code:  bubbab1
Type Locality:  mountainous interior of Tenasserim; type from ''Woods of Teewap''hado, 1,100 to 1,500 feet,'' Amherst District, fide Tickell, 1860, ibid. (1859), p. 449.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1859
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.

tickelli
Col. Samuel Richard Tickell (1811-1875) British Army in India, Nepal and Burma, field ornithologist, artist (subsp. Arborophila rufogularis, subsp. Erythrogenys hypoleucos, subsp. Ixos mcclellandii, Ptilolaemus, Trichastoma).

SUBSPECIES

Buff-breasted Babbler (assamense)
SCI Name: Pellorneum tickelli assamense
assamense / assamensis / assami / assamica / assamicus
Assam, India (from Mughal name Asham for the region).

Buff-breasted Babbler (grisescens)
SCI Name: Pellorneum tickelli grisescens
grisescens
Mod. L. griscescens, griscescentis  greyish, somewhat grey  < Med. L. griseum  grey.

Buff-breasted Babbler (fulvum)
SCI Name: Pellorneum tickelli fulvum
fulvum / fulvus
L. fulvus  tawny, deep yellow, brown, fulvous.
● ex “Cream-coloured Buzzard” of Latham 1781 (syn. Buteo jamaicensis).
● ex “Aigle de Montevideo” of de Buffon (Sonnini ed.), 1800-1802 (syn. Buteogallus urubitinga) (= ☼).
● ex “Tangara jaune à tête noire de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 809, fig. 2, and “Tangara mordoré” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Lanio).
● ex “Oriolus Maderaspatanus fulvus” of Brisson 1760 (syn. Oriolus kundoo).

Buff-breasted Babbler (annamense)
SCI Name: Pellorneum tickelli annamense
annamense / annamensis
Annam Protectorate, French Indochina (= central Vietnam).

Buff-breasted Babbler (tickelli)
SCI Name: Pellorneum tickelli tickelli
tickelli
Col. Samuel Richard Tickell (1811-1875) British Army in India, Nepal and Burma, field ornithologist, artist (subsp. Arborophila rufogularis, subsp. Erythrogenys hypoleucos, subsp. Ixos mcclellandii, Ptilolaemus, Trichastoma).