Pellorneum is a genus of passerine birds in the family Pellorneidae. Some of its species were formerly placed in the genus Trichastoma.
The genus Pellorneum was introduced in 1832 by the English naturalist William Swainson with Pellorneum ruficeps, the puff-throated babbler, as the type species. The title page bears the year 1831 but the volume was not published until 1832. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".
The genus contains the following 18 species:
Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Puff-throated babbler Pellorneum ruficeps South Asia, Yunna, and Indochina Brown-capped babbler Pellorneum fuscocapillus Sri Lanka Marsh babbler Pellorneum palustre Northeast India Malayan black-capped babbler Pellorneum nigrocapitatum western Malesia Javan black-capped babbler Pellorneum capistratum Java Bornean black-capped babbler Pellorneum capistratoides Borneo Mourning babbler Pellorneum malaccense Malesia Glissando babbler Pellorneum saturatum Bangka Belitung Islands Leaflitter babbler Pellorneum poliogene Borneo Ashy-headed babbler Pellorneum cinereiceps Palawan Spot-throated babbler Pellorneum albiventre Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina Buff-breasted babbler Pellorneum tickelli Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan and Indochina Sumatran babbler Pellorneum buettikoferi Bukit Barisan foothills Temminck's babbler Pellorneum pyrrogenys montane Java and Borneo Malayan swamp babbler Pellorneum rostratum Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Riau, Lingga and Belitung Bornean swamp babbler Pellorneum macropterum Borneo and Banggi Island Ferruginous babbler Pellorneum bicolor Malesia Sulawesi babbler Pellorneum celebense Sulawesi
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