CATALOGUE. 
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i. Keddah. j. Prov. Wellesley, Malacca. Presented by 
Dr. Cantor, 1854. 
j. Sumatra. Drawing. From Raffles's Collection. 
k. Ceylon. Drawing. From M. Jonville's Collection. 
" This is extremely common in all parts of the country, wherever 
there are a sufficiency of trees, inhabiting open spaces in the jungles 
(never in the denser portions), groves, avenues, and gardens, being 
very familiar, approaching close to houses, and sometimes perching 
on the house-top. As far as I have observed, it does not climb like 
the Woodpeckers, but, when feeding, hops about the branches like a 
perching bird. Though I never detected this Barbet tapping like 
the Woodpeckers, I have once or twice had good reason for sup- 
posing that it does so occasionally. Its chief food is fruit of various 
kinds, and sometimes insects. When not employed in feeding, it 
generally seats itself on the very top of a tree, and gives utterance 
to its monotonous call of took, took, took, nodding its head at each 
call, first to one side and then to the other." — (Jerdon.) 
" Sits on the loftiest and extreme twigs of trees, uttering the 
syllables took, took, took, deliberately, and nodding its head at each 
took; the sound and the motion originating the idea of a copper- 
smith at work hammering. Fruit and insects found in the stomach." 
— (Colonel Sykes.) 
" Often congregates in small flocks. It flies with short jerks, high 
in the air, though to no great distance at a time. It is a social 
good-tempered bird." — (Pearson.) 
" The voice of this bird is certainly very remarkable : it begins in 
a low tone, and gradually increases its pitch and its power until the 
whole tree seems vocal with one full rich sound. This ubiquity of 
sound much deceives a person endeavouring to see the bird who, 
causes it, as he may look to any part of the tree, and his ear will 
never guide his eye. Another is the smallness and green colour of 
the bird, which hide it among the foliage ; and the last is its immo- 
bility, for it remains fixed to one spot all the time it utters its note. 
When not thus engaged, it runs up and down the tree like a Wood- 
pecker, displaying its beautiful yellow, red, and green clothing. 
Abounds in E-ohilcund ; and is also a visitant in the neighbourhood 
of Muttra. They generally occur in pairs ; and I have seen them in 
all high trees."— (Eev. T. Phillips's MS. Notes.) 
" This is the prevailing species of Barbet in the northern province 
of Ceylon. It frequents the tamarind-trees, on the fruit of which it 
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