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  1. Tropical bird, often brightly coloured.
  2. There are some 78 species of barbet
  3. in the family Capitonidae, about half living
  4. in Africa. Barbets eat insects and fruits
  5. and, being distant relations of woodpeckers,
  6. drill nest holes with their beaks. The name
  7. comes from the `little beard' of bristles at
  8. the base of the beak.
  9.