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BARCKHAUSIA. 



hole* of trot The Btrbete are divided into the three follow ing 

 sub-genera: 



Sub-genii* 1'oyuniat. 



Poyon'uu (lUiger) u furnished with one or two strong teeth on each 

 side of the upper mandible, and the beard u very strong. Africa and 

 the India are the place* where they are found, according to C'uvier, 

 who says that the species of thin nib-genus feed more mi fruit* thau 

 any of the others. Poyoniai ktrtttiiu (Swainson), an African specie*, 

 in a good example. 



.' lirtutui. 



Sub-genus Bacco. 



B*cco (Cuvier), Capita (Vieillot), embraces the true Barbels, which 

 have the conical bill slightly compressed and a little elevated in the 

 middle. Their plumage ia, generally speaking, gay; and they are to 

 be found both in Africa and Asia. During the breeding season they 

 go in pairs, but congregate in small Bocks during the remainder of 

 the year. The Buff-Faced Barbel (Buccu Lathami) affords an example 

 of the true Barbels. 





Huff-Faced llurbct (Butto Lalhami). 



Latham refer* to a specimen in the British Museum, and lays that 

 its native place is uncertain. 



Sub-geno* Tamatia. 



Tamatia (Cuvier), the name by which one of these birds is known 

 in Ilrazil according to Marcgrave, comprises those species which/ have 

 the bill a little more elongated and compressed, and slightly curved 

 at the extremity. The great head, short tail, and large bill of these 



Puff-Birds, as they are called, give them, as Cuvier observes, an air of 

 -pipidity, which their melancholy and Military habits do not lonsnn 

 They are said to feed entirely on "insects, and all the recorded species 

 are American. In Paraguay, according to Azara, they are called 

 Chacurua Temminok affixes the name Cajnio to this sub-genus. 

 Tamatia nuurorkyiMAof (Swainsnu). which that uuthor1>taiiii-<l from 



fut horn Brazil, and which he is disposed to consider a variety of the 



Tamatia ntacrorhynchol. 



greater Pied Barbet of Latham, will give a good idea of the character 

 of these birds. 



nson gives the following interesting account of their habits : 

 " There is soi i-y grotesque in the appearance of all the Puff- 



Birds, and their habits in a state of nature are no less singular. They 

 frequent open cultivated spots near habitation*, always perching on 

 the withered branches of a low tree, where they will sit nearly in 

 less 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 which they will sometime* 

 ut for months. At such times the disproportionate size of tin- 

 head is rendered more conspicuous by the bird raising its feathers so 

 as to appear not unlike a puff-ball ; hence the general name the . 

 received from the English residents in Brazil, of which vast country 

 all the species, I believe, are natives. When frightened, this form is 

 suddenly changed by the feathers lying quite flat Tli 

 confiding, and will often take their station within a few yurd of the 

 window. Tli.' two sexes are generally near each other, and often on 

 the same ti 



The length of this species i about eight inches. Plumage black 

 and white, except the belly and vent, which are tinged with buff. 



BABBUa 



I 1 . \i;cKH.\l'SI.\, tin- TIMIIIC of a genus of plants belonging \>- the 



i/amilii, tlie tribe ('-. " trili- 



! hiis maiiv (lowered heads, a double in inner 



lax scales ; the fruits 4-comercd, all (or 



the inn iiy> gnuluiilly contnn:tl into a long beak. Tliis 



geinn has several Kur|K'an species, two of which only are nat i 

 Oreat Britain. The flowers ore yellow or pale purple. Some o f the 



dtivatcil in gardens, where they form a jiretly an.! 

 cultivable ln.rd.-r -].lant. The British species are B. lanucacifulm, 

 with I..HL-II i ,n n:ito-]iiiinatifid leaves, erect heads, bristly and downy 

 involu |.:ippus, its outer scales ovate-lau. 



with a inenil.iMii.>u nii.ruin. herl>iiceoiis brocta, the fruits all e(|iiiilly 

 it.j<ifi<ln. 



. 



hairy rmicinutc-piuimtind leaves, nodding 

 wny involucre as long as the pappus, ite 

 , downy ; the marginal fruits slightly 

 olucre, central ones with long lieuks 

 has a stem one or two feet high, y How- 

 .- found in limestone districts. The 



second has a stem from si.\ n, hes in height, with yellow 



flowers. It grows in chalky place* in England, but is a rare plant. 



B. tetota, a German species, has been lately found in several dis- 

 tricts of Great Britain, but it appears moat probable that this ,. 



beaked. 



nod heads, 

 >cales lan 

 beaked, shorter 

 equalling it T 

 flowers, purple be 



