A warbler (family Sylviidae); spec. the lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca (cf. babillard, n.). Obsolete. rare.

a nightingale (Daulias philomela) with a slightly speckled breast, found in central and eastern Europe.

a bird with a wedge-shaped bill, as (a) the Australian Sphenostoma cristatum; (b) a South American hummingbird of the genus Schistes.

(a) a thrush of the genus Geocichla; (b) a bird of the Australian genus Cinclosoma; (c) the pitta or ant-thrush.

= babbler, n. 4b.