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n. - Sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae: mockingbirds.

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  • There are two other members of the Mimidae often found on the East Coast.
  • "Reedlings" is just too twee; "real" babblers look like New World thrashers Mimidae...
  • I did a computer search and found that abnormally long bills are rare, but certainly not unknown among the Mimidae.
  • I realized that this bird was clearly not a Long-billed Thrasher, nor was it any other exotic or misplaced member of the Thrasher and Mockingbird family, Mimidae.
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