Chatterer

The grasshopper chirped from her bosom, as if in gratitude for its deliverance, and Chloe on hearing it screamed again; whereupon Daphnis laughed, and took the little chatterer from its hiding-place.

Oh! that chatterer, that worst of gossipers, has gone and told them all we said about them the other day.

Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus,[…]!”

Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.

Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?

The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.