General
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The Timaliidae are a remnant of the former Timaliidae assemblage. (Spin-offs from the family include the Pellorneidae, Leiothrichidae, Pnoepygidae, and Vireonidae, and parts of the Zosteropidae and Sylviidae.)
Members of the family occurring on Taiwan are the scimitar babblers (Pomatorhinus and Erythrogenys), known as 彎嘴 'curved-bill', and the Rufous-capped Babbler, 山紅頭 'mountain red-head'.
On the Mainland, the 眉 'eyebrow' from 画眉 has passed into use as a name for the babblers in general, with each genus being given a name ending in 鶥 . While Taiwanese names have gone some way to converging with the Mainland names in other families, the slimmed-down Timaliidae contain no examples of this type.
Species names
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| Pomatorhinus | ||||||||
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Pomatorhinus ruficollis |
Streak-breasted scimitar babbler Rufous-necked scimitar babbler |
小彎嘴 (小弯嘴) 'small curved-bill' |
(棕頸鉤嘴鶥) 棕颈钩嘴鹛 'reddishbrown-necked hook-bill-babbler' |
小彎嘴畫眉 (小弯嘴画眉) 'small curved-billed hwamei' 竹腳畫眉 (竹脚画眉) 'bamboo foot hwamei' 小偃月嘴嘈雜鳥 (小偃月嘴嘈杂鸟) 'small crescent-moon-billed noisy bird' (early ornithological) (35) 小鉤嘴嘈鶥 (小钩嘴嘈鹛) 'small hooked-billed noisy-babbler' 小鉤嘴鶥 (小钩嘴鹛) 'small hook-bill-babbler' 小眉 (小眉) 'small eyebrow' (= 'small babbler') |
ヒメマルハシ (姫丸嘴) hime maru-hashi 'princess curved-bill' |
Chim Họa mi đất cỏ hung 'reddish-billed ground-hwamei (bird)' (34) |
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| Erythrogenys | ||||||||
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| Erythrogenys erythrocnemis Pomatorhinus erythrogenys  Taxonomy |
Spot-breasted scimitar babbler | 大彎嘴 (大弯嘴) 'large curved-bill' |
(銹臉鉤嘴鶥) 锈脸钩嘴鹛 'rusty-faced hook-bill-babbler' Taxonomy |
大彎嘴畫眉 (大弯嘴画眉) 'large curved-billed hwamei' |
マルハシ (丸嘴) maru-hashi 'curved-bill' |
Chim Họa mi đất má trắng 'white-cheeked ground-hwamei (bird)' (12, 34) |
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| Cyanoderma | ||||||||
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| Cyanoderma ruficeps Stachyris ruficeps Stachyridopsis ruficeps |
Rufous-capped babbler Red-headed tree babbler |
山紅頭 (山红头) 'mountain red head' |
(紅頭穗鶥) 红头穗鹛 'red-headed cereal-ear babbler' |
ズアカチメドリ (頭赤知目鳥) zu-aka chime-dori 'red-headed babbler-bird' |
Chim Khướư bụi đầu đỏ 'red-headed bush-babbler (bird)' (12, 34) |
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The word Họa mi is a borrowing from Chinese 畫眉 huà-méi 'painted-eyebrow', the name of the Hwamei or Melodious Laughing-thrush. In Vietnamese, in addition to the Hwamei itself (Leiothrichidae), it has been applied ornithologically to the Chestnut-capped Babbler and scimitar babblers (Timaliidae) and the Yellow-eyed Babbler (Sylviidae).
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A Complete Checklist of Species and Subspecies of the Chinese Birds (Revised Edition) by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 2000
中国鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2005年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of China Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2005
中国鸟类野外手册（中文版）约翰・马敬能、卡伦・菲利普斯，合作者：荷芬奇，翻译：卢和芬 湖南教育出版社 长沙 2000年
A Field Guide to the Birds of China (Chinese translation) by John MacKinnon, Karen Phillipps, in collaboration with He Fen-qi, translated by Lu Hefen, Hunan Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Hunan Educational Press) Changsha 2000
世界鸟类分类与分布名录 主编：郑光美 科学出版社 北京 2002年
A Checklist on the Classification and Distribution of the Birds of the World Chief editor: Zheng Guangmei, Science Press, Beijing 2002
世界鸟类名称（拉丁文、汉文、英文对照）第二版 郑作新等 科学出版社 北京 2002年
Birds of the World (Latin, Chinese and English Names) 2nd ed. by Cheng Tso-Hsin et al, Science Press, Beijing 2002
中国鸟类分布名录 第二版 郑作新 科学出版社 北京 1976年
(Checklist of the Classification of Birds of China 2nd edition by Cheng Tso-Hsin, Science Press, Beijing 1976)
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Birds of Hong Kong and South China (6th edition, translated into Chinese and newly revised) by Clive Viney, Karen Phillipps, Lin Chaoying, Hong Kong Govt. Press 1994
Danh Lục Chim Việt Nam (In lần thứ hai) (Checklist of the Birds of Vietnam) Võ Quý, Nguyễn Cử, Nhà Xuất Bản Nông Nghiệp, Hà Nội 1999
Chim Việt Nam Nguyễn Cử, Lê Trọng Trải, Karen Phillipps; Nhà Xuất Bản Lao Động - Xã Hội, 2000
Danh Lục Các Loài Chim ở Việt Nam (Latinh, Việt, Pháp, Hán) Trần Văn Chánh 2008-2009
Chinese Birds (A Tentative List of Chinese Birds) 中國鳥類（中國鳥類目錄試編） N. Gist Gee, Lacy I. Moffett, G. D. Wilder (祁天錫, 慕維德, 萬卓志), Peiping, 1927 (reprinted 1948)
中国观鸟年报-中国鸟类名录 1.1 (The CBR Checklist of Birds of China v1.1) 中国观鸟年报 (China Bird Review), 2010
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