Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE SONG BIRDS
THE BABBLING THRUSHES
Typical Babblers
The remaining forms that we shall have space to mention belong mainly to what are presumed to be the typical members of the family, namely, the subfamily Timeliintz. They are in general much smaller birds than those already mentioned, and, according to Mr. Oates, agree in being solitary in their habits, or rather less gregarious, though some of them are said to go about in small flocks, but this is by no means a general or usual character among them. They are above all things skulkers, frequenting the ground or undergrowth, and being seldom found many feet above the ground. They are not remarkably noisy, and they simply evade observation to the best of their power. All of the members of the group, or at least the Indian representatives so far as known, appear to lay spotted eggs. They have the same strong legs and feet and short, rounded wings of the Laughing Thrushes and their allies, but the head is never fully crested; the sexes are invariably alike in coloration, the principal hue being some shade of brown, often relieved with slight dashes of white, yellow, or black.