. The royal natural history. icliUf<, distinguished byhaving the tail greenish blue instead of purple. In habits all the wood-hoopoesare very shy and wary, and very active an<l erratic in their movements, always 6o PICARIAN BIRDS. frequenting trees, and seldom descending to the ground. They are said to breed inhollow trees and lay white eggs, and the nests have the same offensive smell asthose of the ordinary hoopoes. Mr. Ayres says that the birds themselves have avery powerful and disagreeable smell, and he has seen them creeping about thetrunks and branches of trees, after the manner o
. The royal natural history. icliUf<, distinguished byhaving the tail greenish blue instead of purple. In habits all the wood-hoopoesare very shy and wary, and very active an<l erratic in their movements, always 6o PICARIAN BIRDS. frequenting trees, and seldom descending to the ground. They are said to breed inhollow trees and lay white eggs, and the nests have the same offensive smell asthose of the ordinary hoopoes. Mr. Ayres says that the birds themselves have avery powerful and disagreeable smell, and he has seen them creeping about thetrunks and branches of trees, after the manner of woodpeckers, and feeding oncockroaches, which they take from the crevices of rough-barked trees. They are. WOOD-HOOPOE (A Uat. size generally seen in flocks, probably consisting of family parties, and they have aloud and harsh cry, which has caused the name of kachela or chatterer, to begiven to them by the Dutch colonists. The Horxbills. Family BUCEROTIDJS. The hornbills, wliicli form a suborder as well as a family by themselves,derive their name from the great development of tlie bill, which is mostly hollow,and furnished with a cas(|ue of greater or less prominence, although the latterappendage is sometimes represented merely by a straight and compressed , in tlie case of the solid-casqued hornbill (), tlie whole of this HORNBILLS. 6i portion of the beak is solid, and the entire skull consequently very heavy, whereasin the other species it is remarkable for its lightness. The palate is of the bridgedtype, and the upper part of the breast-bone has the same perforation as in thehoopoes and bee-eaters. The spinal feather-tract is not defined on the nec
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