. A dictionary of birds . Pellorseum. Crateropus. BABBLER, apparently first used in ornithology in 1837, bySwainson (Classif. B. ii. 233), for the birds, assigned by himto the subfamily Craterapodinse, belonging to the genera Pellor-neum, Crateropus,Grallina, Malacocer-cus (including as asubgenus Timalia ofHorsfield) and Ptero-pfocJms (Tapaculo).With the exceptionof the third and thelast these forms arenow commonly re-garded as forming part of the FamilyTinieliidx (often but less accuratelyAviitten Timaliidai), which no system-atist has yet been able to definesatisfactorily, while many have no

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. A dictionary of birds . Pellorseum. Crateropus. BABBLER, apparently first used in ornithology in 1837, bySwainson (Classif. B. ii. 233), for the birds, assigned by himto the subfamily Craterapodinse, belonging to the genera Pellor-neum, Crateropus,Grallina, Malacocer-cus (including as asubgenus Timalia ofHorsfield) and Ptero-pfocJms (Tapaculo).With the exceptionof the third and thelast these forms arenow commonly re-garded as forming part of the FamilyTinieliidx (often but less accuratelyAviitten Timaliidai), which no system-atist has yet been able to definesatisfactorily, while many have notunjustly regarded it as a refuge forthe destitute—thrusting into it agreat number of forms, chiefly Qscin-ine, that, with a bill resembling aShrikes, a Thrushs, or a War-blers, mostly possess very short and incurved wings, and cannot,in the opinion of some, be conveniently stowed elsewhere. Twovolumes (vi. and vii.) of the Cakdogm of Birds in the British. CiNCLORHAMPHUS. (After Swainson.) BABILLARD—BALDPA TE

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