. A dictionary of birds . Pellorneum. Crateropus. BABBLER, apparently first used in ornithology in 1837, bySwainson (Classif. B. ii. 233), for the birds, assigned by himto the subfamily Crateropoclinx, belonging to the genera Bellor-neum, Crateropus,G-rallina, Malacocer-ciis (including as asubgenus Timalia ofHorsfield) and Btero-ptochus (Tapaculo).With the exceptionof the third and thelast these forms arenow commonly re-garded as forming part of the FamilyTimeliidx (often but less accuratelywritten Timaliidse), which no system-atist has yet been able to definesatisfactorily, Avhile many have n

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. A dictionary of birds . Pellorneum. Crateropus. BABBLER, apparently first used in ornithology in 1837, bySwainson (Classif. B. ii. 233), for the birds, assigned by himto the subfamily Crateropoclinx, belonging to the genera Bellor-neum, Crateropus,G-rallina, Malacocer-ciis (including as asubgenus Timalia ofHorsfield) and Btero-ptochus (Tapaculo).With the exceptionof the third and thelast these forms arenow commonly re-garded as forming part of the FamilyTimeliidx (often but less accuratelywritten Timaliidse), which no system-atist has yet been able to definesatisfactorily, Avhile many have notunjustly regarded it as a refuge forthe destitute—thrusting into it agreat number of forms, chiefly Oscin-ine, that, Avith a bill resembling a Cinclorhamphus. Shrikes, a Thrushs, or a War- (After swamson.) BLErs, mostly possess veiy short and incurved wings, and cannot,in the opinion of some, be conveniently stowed elsewhere. Twovolumes (vi. and vii.) of the Catalogue of Birds in the British. BABILLARD—BALDPA TE

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