Sulawesi Babbler

SCI Name:  Pellorneum celebense
Protonym:  Trichostoma celebense Contrib.Orn.[Jardine] p."127-28" pl.35 fig.
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Pellorneidae / Pellorneum
Taxonomy Code:  sulbab1
Type Locality:  Celebes ; type specimen characteristic of population of northern peninsula.
Author:  Strickland
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.

celebense / celebensis
Celebes, Dutch East Indies / Sulawesi, Indonesia.

SUBSPECIES

Sulawesi Babbler (celebense)
SCI Name: Pellorneum celebense celebense
celebense / celebensis
Celebes, Dutch East Indies / Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Sulawesi Babbler (rufofuscum)
SCI Name: Pellorneum celebense rufofuscum
rufofusca / rufofuscum / rufofuscus
L. rufus  rufous; fuscus  brown, dusky.
● ex “Rounoir” of Levaillant 1797, pl. 16 < French homophone roux red; noir black (Buteo).

Sulawesi Babbler (finschi)
SCI Name: Pellorneum celebense finschi
finschi
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Amazona, syn. Apus horus, ‡Chenonetta, syn. Coereba bartholemica, subsp. Dicaeum agile, Euphonia, syn. Gallirallus australis, subsp. Haematopus ostralegus, syn. Laniarius aethiopicus major, syn. Malacocincla abbotti concreta, syn. Muscicapa striata, Oriolus, subsp. Paradisaea minor, syn. Ploceus velatus, Psittacara, subsp. Ptilinopus iozonus, subsp. Pycnopygius ixoides, Scleroptila, syn. Scotornis climacurus nigricans, Stizorhina, syn. Tauraco schuettii, subsp. Trichastoma celebense, syn. Tropicranus albocristatus) (see finschii).

Sulawesi Babbler (togianense)
SCI Name: Pellorneum celebense togianense
togianense / togianensis
Togian or Togean Is., Celebes, Dutch East Indies / Sulawesi, Indonesia.