Levaillant asserts that the old and infirm Barbets are cared for and fed by those in the enjoyment of all their vigour.
Woodpeckers are abundant, belonging to a dozen peculiar genera; while gaudy barbets and strange forms of cuckoos and hornbills are also to be met with everywhere.
The green barbets lift up their voices fairly frequently, but it is only on rare occasions that their cousins--the coppersmiths--hammer on their anvils.
In the first half of the month the green barbets utter their familiar cries at frequent intervals; as the weather grows colder they call less often, but at no season of the year do they cease altogether to raise their voices.
The barbets and coppersmiths, although not so vociferous as formerly, cannot, even in the monsoon, be charged with hiding their lights under a bushel.
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.
March and April are the months in which the majority of coppersmiths or crimson-breasted barbets rear up their families.
Barbets are never so happy as when listening to their own voices.
Barbets nest in cavities in the trunks of trees, which they themselves excavate with their powerful beaks, after the manner of woodpeckers.
Himalayan barbets go about in small flocks, the members of which call out in chorus.
Barbets are heavily-built birds of medium size, armed with formidable beaks, which they do not hesitate to use for aggressive purposes.
We have certainly here the source of our barbets and griffons.
The barbets are entirely covered with long curly hair, like the poodles, which are directly derived from them.
The Barbets have a curious habit of raising all their plumage till they look like a ball of feathers; from this peculiarity they have gained the name of Puff-birds.
Among these are found the Trogons, Honey-guides, Anis or Annos, Barbets and the Touracos or Plantain-eaters.
The Anis and the Barbets also belong to the group of Cuckoos.
The Barbets owe their name to a number of straight hairs which they have upon their beak.
The Camisard chief mixed with the men, talking with them freely about the Barbets and their doings.
Count Broglie and Captain Poul are killed, and the Barbets are pursuing the remainder of the royal troops into the city!
Lajonquière, "at last we have hold of the Barbets we have been so long looking for!
The war was one of extermination, in which many of the Barbets were killed.
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