. Cassell's natural history . congregate in small flocks duringthe remainder of the ycai-. Tlie butt-faced barbet f attbrds an example of the truebarbets. It may be obsciwed iu the JJritish ]\luseum; its native place is uncertain. Hucco Viisiciilor. •f lilKCO Till, ) LAAIATIA. Of the Barbets, there is a suh-gciius, Tamafia, Cuvier. The groat head, short tail, andlarge bill of these putt-birds, as they Ewe called, give them, as Cuvier obser\-es, an air ofstupidity, which their melancholy and solitary habits do not lessen. They are said tofeed entirely on insects
. Cassell's natural history . congregate in small flocks duringthe remainder of the ycai-. Tlie butt-faced barbet f attbrds an example of the truebarbets. It may be obsciwed iu the JJritish ]\luseum; its native place is uncertain. Hucco Viisiciilor. •f lilKCO Till, ) LAAIATIA. Of the Barbets, there is a suh-gciius, Tamafia, Cuvier. The groat head, short tail, andlarge bill of these putt-birds, as they Ewe called, give them, as Cuvier obser\-es, an air ofstupidity, which their melancholy and solitary habits do not lessen. They are said tofeed entirely on insects. All the recorded species are American. Swainson obtained oneof them from Southern Brazil. This naturalist, who had good opportunities of obser\ing these birds, gives the following-interesting accoimt of their habits. There is something very grotesque in the appear-ance of all the Putt birds ; and their habits in a state of nature are no less frequent open cultivated spots near habitations, always perching on the witheredbranches of a low tree; where they will sit nearly motionless for hours, unless, indeed,they descry some luckless insect passing near them, at which they immediately dart,returning again to the identical twig they had just left, and w
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