barbet

1 The first case of the series, contains the South American and African barbets, and the groove-billed barbican; the minute woodpecker, the North American three-toed and white-billed woodpecker, and the spotted woodpecker common in Europe.

2 Now in Bali we find woodpeckers, fruit-thrushes, barbets, and other Asiatic birds.

3 Honeysuckers and lories take the place of the woodpeckers, barbets, trogons, and fruit thrushes of the western islands, and the many mammals belonging to Asiatic genera are no more seen.

4 Moreover, Mr. S. M. Townsend records that a barbet kept by him in captivity on one occasion devoured with gusto a dead mouse that had been placed in its cage.

5 The monotonous tonk-tonk-tonk of the coppersmith and the kutur-kutur-kutur of the green barbet are no more heard; in their stead the curious calls of the great Himalayan barbet resound among the hills.

6 There, bending over barbet pieces, I overheard fragments of their conversation.

7 Finally, we reckon also among hunting dogs some very happy crosses between the spaniels and the barbets, which in England are called retrievers or water spaniels.—P.

8 A striking feature of the great Himalayan barbet is its massive yellow bill, which is as large as that of some species of toucan.

9 Many kinds of birds; parrots, toucans, and barbets, which live habitually in the forest, then visit the open places.

10 We have certainly here the source of our barbets and griffons.

11 The green barbet calls spasmodically throughout December, but, as a rule, only in the afternoon.

12 A barbet is standing guard by its nest in a tree on a street.

一只巨嘴鸟正在街边树上保卫自己的巢。

13 Not so the barbets; they call all the year round; even unfledged nestlings raise up the voices of infantile squeakiness.

14 Himalayan barbets go about in small flocks, the members of which call out in chorus.

15 We were amazed when we came across a group of them — and also wild red jungle fowl, a green dove, a green barbet and many other wonderful animals.

16 The call of the great Himalayan barbet is very distinctive and easy to recognise, but is far from easy to portray in words.

17 “A barbet,” said Murray, giving the bird to one of the men to carry; “but like your hornbill, too common to be worth preserving.”

18 The green barbets also call spasmodically throughout the month, chiefly in the early morning and the late afternoon, but the only note uttered by the coppersmith is a soft wow.

19 The barbets and coppersmiths, although not so vociferous as formerly, cannot, even in the monsoon, be charged with hiding their lights under a bushel.

20 Then it would be a green barbet, with bristle-armed beak and bright blue and scarlet feathers to make it gay.

1 须科

coppersmith tinkerbird

2 须

silk whisker