Melanocichla

Melanocichla is a genus of birds in the Old World babbler family Timaliidae.

==Taxonomy== The genus Melanocichla was introduced in 1883 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe to accommodate a single species, the black laughingthrush, which is therefore the type species of the genus. The name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with kikhlkikhlē meaning "thrush".