This is considerably smaller than the other babblers described.
All three species of babblers build neat cup-shaped nests not far above the ground and lay beautiful blue eggs.
The Australian Babblersare of interest from all points of view.
Babblers sometimes make six or seven nests, laying only in one.
A prudent man will pursue his path directly toward his aim, and the hum of babblers never disturbs him.
It belongs to those antiquated evils on which now that there is greater danger of an utter prostration of religious ideas than of their fanatical abuse, only narrow-minded babblers are declaiming.
That will not do for you," he said; "the members are a set of babblers and phrasemongers, whom I mean to get rid of.
Notwithstanding the fact that babblers are among the commonest birds in India, there is much to be discovered regarding the nature of their flocks.
When I arrived, the victims of the outrage were swearing as only babblers and bargees can, and making feints at the crows.
But ere the sun has shown his face the grey babblers join vociferously in the chorus that fills the welkin.
Only yesterday I saw a party of about a dozen large grey babblers attack and drive away a couple of black crows (Corvus macrorhynchus) from a position which the latter had taken up on the ground.
It is quite possible that the club of babblers thus captured and decorated with gay colours might flee from the neighbourhood in wrath and terror.
Personally, I am inclined to think that babblers are monogamous.
There is no reason why they should not, for babblersneither migrate nor wander far afield.
The best-known members are the widely distributed seven sisters, which in many respects are very like those human babblers who style themselves Labour Members of Parliament.
During the months of September and October I have observed severalBabblers in the act of feeding one young H.
The strange egg is not noticed by the babblers on their return because it is blue like theirs.
There is nothing particularly remarkable in this, for babblers are the favourite dupes of Indian cuckoos.
If all cuckoos parasitic on babblers were like hawks in appearance, I should have nothing to urge against the above explanation.
Wherefore let those rude babblers go, who can say a great deal on the subject that is nothing after all but mere scum and vain prating.
Some flocks, however, are still accompanied by impedimenta in the shape of young babblers or pied crested-cuckoos.
The various species of babblers or seven sisters begin to nest in March.
And meanwhile there were some among those babblers who wrote to Germany that Erasmus was somewhere in hiding,--which I never found out until I got here in Basel.
If he had only accepted that "magnificent offer" of six years before, he would have been spared all these "tragedies" with those stupid babblers at Louvain.
Scimitar-babblers have habits similar to those of laughing-thrushes.
Scimitar-babblers are so called because of the long, slender, compressed beak, which is curved downwards like that of a sunbird.
Very different in habits and appearance from any of the babblers mentioned above is the famous Himalayan whistling-thrush (Myiophoneous temmincki).
Babblers proper are essentially birds of the plains.
The Indian white-eye (Zosterops palbebrosa) is not at all like any of the babblers hitherto described.
I left word for him yesterday at Blackstock's, by giving the babblers there something to talk about, which I knew he would hear.
I will uphold the discipline of the valiant Hugh Habershaw of the Tiger against all the babblers the world over.
Perhaps because it is impossible to convince these superficial babblers who take a name or a word for an object actually existent in time and space, that they are in error.
But we can order one from those babblers of the Academy!
What do I care," said he, "if a couple of hundred babblers of deputies put one king in place of another?
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