Turdoides

Turdoides is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae. The species are distributed across Africa and southern Asia and are typically fairly large, long-tailed birds which forage in noisy groups. The majority of species have drab brown or grey-brown plumage. Several species that were included in Turdoides in the past have been reassigned to Argya following a 2018 study that found multiple clades.

The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler. The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".

Species
The genus contains the following 19 species:


 * Brown babbler, Turdoides plebejus
 * Bare-cheeked babbler, Turdoides gymnogenys
 * Arrow-marked babbler, Turdoides jardineii
 * Scaly babbler, Turdoides squamulata
 * White-rumped babbler, Turdoides leucopygia
 * White-headed babbler, Turdoides leucocephala
 * Blackcap babbler, Turdoides reinwardtii
 * Dusky babbler, Turdoides tenebrosa
 * Southern pied babbler, Turdoides bicolor
 * Northern pied babbler, Turdoides hypoleuca
 * Black-lored babbler, Turdoides sharpei
 * Black-faced babbler, Turdoides melanops
 * Hartlaub's babbler, Turdoides hartlaubii
 * Hinde's babbler, Turdoides hindei
 * Spiny babbler, Turdoides nipalensis
 * White-throated mountain babbler, Turdoides gilberti – previously in Kupeornis
 * Red-collared babbler, Turdoides rufocinctus – previously in Kupeornis
 * Chapin's babbler,	Turdoides chapini – previously in Kupeornis
 * Capuchin babbler, Turdoides atripennis – previously in monotypic Phyllanthus