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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

FAMILY, Megalaimidae

FAMILY, Megalaimidae.

Bill stout and somewhat conic, inflated at the sides, moderate in length or short, wide at the base, more or less compressed towards the tip; base of upper mandible continued backward to the gape, and usually furnished at the base with numerous stiff bristles projecting forwards ; some have the mandibles denticulated, and grooved at the sides ; culmen generally blunt; wings and tail short, the latter even or nearly so; with the feathers soft, only ten in number; toes in pairs, the hind-claws much curved; tongue of ordinary structure.

BookTitle: 
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference: 
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book: 
Family Megalaimidae
Book Author: 
Barnes, H. Edwin
Year: 
1885
Page No: 
121
M_ID: 
10015
M_SN: 
Megalaimidae
Term name: 
id: 
11395

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