Turdoides

{{Short description|Genus of birds in the family Leiothrichidae}}

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| image = Brown Babbler - KenyaNH8O0619 (19540603722).jpg

| image_caption = Brown babbler (Turdoides plebejus)

| taxon = Turdoides

| authority = Cretzschmar, 1826

| type_species = Turdoides leucocephala (white-headed babbler)

| type_species_authority = Cretzschmar, 1826

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See list

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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.{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/zsc.12296|title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy|journal=Zoologica Scripta|volume=47|issue=4|pages=428–440|year=2018|last1=Cibois|first1=Alice|last2=Gelang|first2=Magnus|last3=Alström|first3=Per|last4=Pasquet|first4=Eric|last5=Fjeldså|first5=Jon|last6=Ericson|first6=Per G. P.|last7=Olsson|first7=Urban|s2cid=51883434 }}

The genus Turdoides was introduced in 1826 by the German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar specifically for the white-headed babbler.{{ cite book | last=Cretzschmar | first=Philipp Jakob | author-link=Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar | editor-last=Rüppell | chapter=Vögel | editor-first=Eduard | editor-link=Eduard Rüppell | date=1826 | title=Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika | volume=1826-1828 | language=German | location=Frankfurt am Main | publisher=Heinr. Ludw. Brönner | pages=1–55 [6–7, plate 4] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37140714 }} The name combines the thrush genus Turdus with the Ancient Greek -oidēs meaning "resembling".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=392 }}