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ˈpuff-bird Any bird of the American family Bucconidæ or fissirostral barbets, so called from their habit of puffing out their feathers.
1821–2Swainson Zool. Illustr. II. Plate 99 There is something very grotesque in the appearance of all the Puff birds. 1895C. Dixon in Fortn. Rev. Apr. 144 The Bucconidæ or puff-birds with forty-three species. |