76 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
as a type of the group, whereof there are at least twenty different 
species. 
We have just spoken of Birds with large or long beaks, but 
there is a very noteworthy, though very small, group of Birds 
whose beaks are so transversely extended that they have obtained 
the name of Broadbills. The whole group consists but of a 

The Banded Puff-bird (Bucco tectus). 
dozen species, arranged in seven genera, and the Javan Broad- 
bill (Eurylemus javanicus) may stand as a type of them. It 
frequents the banks of rivers and lakes, feeding upon worms, 
and builds a pendent nest, which overhangs the water. The 
Broad-bills are described as very stupid Birds, which move about 
in small parties, and allow themselves to be shot one after 
the other. Some of them feed on insects in the same mode as 
