Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE SONG BIRDS
THE BABBLING THRUSHES
Golden-headed Babbler
As most of the forms allied to the above species are similar in appearance and habits, being separated mostly on minor technical characters, we may well pass them by, to take up briefly a small group in which the plumage is a little more attractive. Thus the Golden-headed Babbler (Stachyris chrysaa) of India, a bird but five and a half inches long, has the upper plumage and wings bright olive-yellow, the forehead, crown, and nape bright golden yellow, the lores black, and the entire lower plumage bright yellow. This species, in common with the others of its genus, frequents bushes and low trees, among the leaves and flowers of which they seek their insect food.
Their oval nest is constructed usually of bamboo leaves and fixed between some upright branchlets near the ground. This happens to be the only Indian genus which lays unspotted white eggs.