puffbirds

Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.

Marajó varzea 2008

Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Wallace mentioned six families of birds the woodpeckers, the trogons, the hornbills, the broadbills, the puffbirds, the bee-eaters that were abundant throughout Java, Borneo, Celebes, the whole western end of the archipelago, but missing from Aru.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Again, a gentleman who had recently returned from Brazil stated at a meeting of the Entomological Society that he once observed a pair of puffbirds catching butterflies, which they brought to their nest to feed their young; yet during half an hour they never brought one of the Heliconidæ, which were flying lazily about in great numbers, and which they could have captured more easily than any others.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

In the Brazilian forests there are great numbers of insectivorous birds -- as jacamars, trogons, and puffbirds -- which catch insects on the wing, and that they destroy many butterflies is indicated by the fact that the wings of these insects are often found on the ground where their bodies have been devoured.

Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868