Descriptive List of the Common Birds 
It is a winter visitor to the plains of India, 
but can scarcely be called a common bird. 
The Barbets, 113 and 114 
Barbets are tree-haunting birds with thick 
bills. They have loud monotonous calls of 
two or three notes, which they repeat eternally. 
They nest in holes in trees, which they ex- 
cavate with their thick stout bills, in wood- 
pecker fashion. ‘The entrance to the nest is 
a perfectly circular hole, like that leading to a 
woodpecker’s nest, but considerably smaller. 
Barbets, when calling, move the head, so that 
it is not easy to locate the bird from its call. 
113. Thereiceryx zeylonicus: The Common 
Green Barbet. (F. 1008), (J. 193), (III.) 
A rich leaf-green bird, with a brownish head 
and a large brown patch round the eye devoid 
of feathers. 
During the latter part of the cold weather 
and the early part of the hot weather it makes 
the bagh where it occurs resound with its loud, 
penetrating, monotonous kutur, kutur, kutur. 
The bird starts by uttering a harsh laugh— 
tur-r-r-r—this is followed by a long succession 
of kuturs. 
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