. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 216 AVES. H 0 - -s The Restricted Barbets (Bitcco, Cuv.)— Have the beak simply conical, slightly compressed, with a blunt ridge, a little raised about the middle. They are found in both continents, and are generally adorned with vivid colours. At the season of propagation they are found in pairs, and in little troops [or families] during the remainder of the year. [This and the preceding subdivision form a totally distinct group from the rest, and ar
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 216 AVES. H 0 - -s The Restricted Barbets (Bitcco, Cuv.)— Have the beak simply conical, slightly compressed, with a blunt ridge, a little raised about the middle. They are found in both continents, and are generally adorned with vivid colours. At the season of propagation they are found in pairs, and in little troops [or families] during the remainder of the year. [This and the preceding subdivision form a totally distinct group from the rest, and are most nearly related to the Woodpeckers : the tongue, however, is of the ordinary structure, and they have but ten tail-feathers, which are not rigid. Their feet also are adapted for descending the trunks of trees, like a Nuthatch, and not merely for ascending them, as in the Woodpeckers and Tree-creepers; having the claw of the reversed toe particularly hooked and sharp. The beak is especially fitted for cutting the stems of fruits, as with a pair of scissors ; and they lay always four white eggs in the holes of trees, occasionally resorting to the composite nests of the social Grosbeaks. Some other divisions have been instituted among them, with propriety ; and they altogether constitute a natural family, some species of which are even entirely destitute of the tufts of bristles, which latter may be traced, in various degrees of developement, in many other birds, as the Trogons, &c] The Pdff-birds (Tamatia, Cuv.)— Have the beak rather more elongated and compressed, with the extremity of the upper mandible [generally] bent downward. Their disproportionately large head, great beak, and short tail, impart an air of stupidity, [which is less observable in the ordinary aspect of the living bird, the dense plu- mage of which is commonly puffed out into a round ball]. All the known species inhabit America, and subsist on insects. [They are generally subdivided into Tamatia
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