Temminck's Babbler

SCI Name:  Pellorneum pyrrogenys
Protonym:  Myiothera pyrrogenys Pl.Col. livr.74 pl.442 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Pellorneum
Taxonomy Code:  tembab1
Type Locality:  Java ; type locality restricted to Bantam Province, by Kloss, 1931, Treubia, 13, p. 346.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1827
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.

pyrrogenys
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek.

SUBSPECIES

Temminck's Babbler (pyrrogenys)
SCI Name: Pellorneum pyrrogenys pyrrogenys
pyrrogenys
Gr. πυρρος purrhos  flame-coloured, red  < πυρ pur, πυρος puros  fire; γενυς genus, γενυος genuos  cheek.

Temminck's Babbler (besuki)
SCI Name: Pellorneum pyrrogenys besuki
besuki
Besuki Residency, eastern Java, Dutch East Indies (= Indonesia).

Temminck's Babbler (erythrote)
SCI Name: Pellorneum pyrrogenys erythrote
erythrote
Gr. ερυθρος eruthros  red; -ωτις -ōtis  -eared  < ους ous, ωτος ōtos  ear (cf. ερυθροτης eruthrotēs  redness, ruddiness).

Temminck's Babbler (longstaffi)
SCI Name: Pellorneum pyrrogenys longstaffi
longstaffi
Capt. Thomas George Longstaff (1875-1964) English physician, explorer, mountaineer (subsp. Trichastoma pyrrogenys).

Temminck's Babbler (canicapillus)
SCI Name: Pellorneum pyrrogenys canicapillus
canicapilla / canicapillum / canicapillus
L. canus  grey; -capillus  -capped, -headed  < capillus  hair of the head.