Pseudo-Babblers

The Pomatostomidae (Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers, also known as pseudo-babblers) are small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. For many years, the Australo-Papuan babblers were classified, rather uncertainly, with the Old World babblers (Timaliidae), on the grounds of similar appearance and habits. More recent research, however, indicates that they are too basal to belong the Passerida – let alone the Sylvioidea where the Old World babblers are placed – and they are now classed as a separate family close to the Orthonychidae (logrunners).

この科の種

• パプアマルハシ Garritornis isidorei
• ノドジロオーストラリアマルハシ Pomatostomus halli
• クリボウシオーストラリアマルハシ Pomatostomus ruficeps
• マミジロオーストラリアマルハシ Pomatostomus superciliosus
• オーストラリアマルハシ Pomatostomus temporalis