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
Year:
1885
Page No:
121
M_ID:
10015
M_SN:
Megalaimidae
Term name:
id:
11395
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