The Crateropodidæ or Babbler family form a most heterogeneous aggregation of birds, including, as they do, such divers fowls as babblers, whistling-thrushes, bulbuls, and white-eyes. Whenever a systematist comes across an Asiatic bird of which he can make 0, he classes it among the Crateropodidæ. This is convenient for the systematist, but embarrassing for the naturalist. The most characteristic members of the family are those ugly, untidy, noisy earth-coloured birds which materialize...
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