magpie

• On fishing days, she sat beside him and passed the time talking like a magpie or reading stories to him out of the books she made him take her to the library to get. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
• Rose realized that the woman's name was probably ironic; a magpie was a garrulous bird, but this one spoke only briefly. —  Question Quest
• None of the birds equal the songsters of Europe, although many have sweet notes, and some are musical, as the magpie (_Gymnorhina organicum_, Gould), that lively bird whose cheerful notes delight the ear of every traveller at early dawn in the settled districts of Tasmania, to which it is restricted The distribution of the birds of Tasmania is very partial, differing in this respect remarkably from that of the animals. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
• But sir," she added, "there is no bad luck for us to-day, for the magpie flew from left to right The magpie was thought to be a great thief, and it was popularly supposed that if its tongue were split into two with silver it could talk like a man The cry of the magpie is a sign of rain. —  Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
• The vulture is a filthy, unclean wretch--the bird of Mars--preying upon the eyes, the hearts, the entrails of the victims of that scoundrel-mountebank, Glory; whilst the magpie is a petty-larceny vagabond, existing upon social theft. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete

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