Leaflitter babbler

Leaflitter babbler
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pellorneidae
Genus: Pellorneum
Species:
P. poliogene
Binomial name
Pellorneum poliogene
(Strickland, 1849)
Illustration of the leaflitter babbler from: Strickland, H.E., 1849. Notes on several species of birds from Malacca. Contributions to Ornithology for 1848-1853. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars. Plate 31

The leaflitter babbler (Pellorneum poliogene) is a species of bird in the ground babbler family Pellorneidae that is found in northern and central Borneo. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the short-tailed babbler, now renamed the mourning babbler (Pellorneum malaccense).