The jungle babblers are a family, Pellorneidae, of mostly Old World passerine birds.
Pellorneidae used to be one of four subfamilies of the family Timaliidae (tree- and scimitar-babblers), but was then elevated to its own family rank in 2011 based on molecular markers.

Pellorneum, Pellorneidae: combines the Ancient Greek pellos meaning "dark-coloured" with orneon meaning "bird".