Biology:Spelaeornis

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Spelaeornis, the typical wren-babblers, is a bird genus in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae. They are found in the eastern Himalayas and Mayanmar.

Taxonomy

The genus Spelaeornis was introduced in 1877 by the French naturalists Armand David and Émile Oustalet. They placed two species in the genus but did not specify the type.[1] In 1882 the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe designated the type as Pnoepyga troglodytoides Verreaux, J, 1871, the bar-winged wren-babbler.[2][3][4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek σπηλαιον/spēlaion meaning "cave" with ορνις/ornis, ορνιθος/ornithos meaning "bird".[5]

Species

The genus contains the following 8 species:[6]

Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
120px Rufous-throated wren-babbler Spelaeornis caudatus Bhutan, India, and Nepal
120px Mishmi wren-babbler Spelaeornis badeigularis Northeast India.
120px Bar-winged wren-babbler Spelaeornis troglodytoides Bhutan, China, India, and Myanmar
120px Naga wren-babbler Spelaeornis chocolatinus Nagaland and Manipur
120px Grey-bellied wren-babbler Spelaeornis reptatus China (Yunnan), India (Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, and Thailand
Chin Hills wren-babbler Spelaeornis oatesi India and Myanmar
120px Pale-throated wren-babbler Spelaeornis kinneari Vietnam
120px Tawny-breasted wren-babbler Spelaeornis longicaudatus Khasi Hills of Northeast India

The spotted elachura (Elachura formosa) was at one time placed in this genus[7] but is now assigned to its own genus Elachura and own family Elachuridae.[6][8]

References

  1. ↑ David, Armand; Oustalet, Émile (1877) (in French). Les Oiseaux de la Chine. 1. Paris: G. Masson. p. 228. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=o_WURnrCMnAC&pg=PA228. 
  2. ↑ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1881). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Cichlomorphae: Part III. Containing the first portion of the family Timeliidae (Babbling-Thrushes). Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 6. London: Trustees of the British Museum (published 1882). p. 264. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8306054.  Although the title page bears the date of 1881 this volume was not published until 1882.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 295. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486484. 
  4. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 526. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. https://www.avespress.com/uploads/downloads/278/file/HM4_2.pdf#page=580. 
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A.. "Spelaeornis". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Spelaeornis. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/. 
  7. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 297. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486486. 
  8. ↑ Alström, Per; Hooper, Daniel M.; Liu, Yang; Olsson, Urban; Mohan, Dhananjai; Gelang, Magnus; Manh, Hung Le; Zhao, Jian et al. (2014). "Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds". Biology Letters 10 (3). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.1067. PMID 24598108. 

Further reading

Collar, N.J.; Robson, C. (2007). "Family Timaliidae (Babbler)". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.. Handbook of the Birds of the World. 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions. pp. 70-291. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2. https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0012unse/page/70/mode/1up. 

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