Previously the three barbet families were subsumed under the Capitonidae. Howard and Moore 2003 place all the barbets, along with the toucans, which are related to the American barbets, in the large Ramphastidae family. Sibley and Monroe split the African, American, and Asian barbets and the toucans into separate families. The Asian barbets belong to Megalaimidae. It is more common in Asia to assign the Asian barbets to either Capitonidae or Megalaimidae. |
General
Information is based on dictionaries and other sources. Comments and corrections welcome.
The Taiwanese name for the Black-eyebrowed Barbet (Megalaima oorti) was originally the picturesque 五色鳥 'five-coloured bird', which appears to be from Japanese. Recently, however, a variant of the Mainland official name, 擬啄木 , meaning 'pseudo-woodpecker', has been adopted. It is perhaps rather a pity that such an ungainly scientific word for this beautiful bird.
Species names
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Megalaima oorti |
Black-browed barbet Muller's barbet Malayan barbet |
台灣擬啄木 (台湾拟啄木) 'Taiwan pseudo-peck-wood' Taiwan former official: 五色鳥 (五色鸟) 'five-coloured bird'  Taxonomy |
(黑眉擬啄木鳥) 黑眉拟啄木鸟 'black eyebrowed pseudo peck-wood bird' (1, 2, 3, 5) (黑眉擬鴷) 黑眉拟䴕 'black-eyebrowed pseudo-woodpecker' (4) |
山擬啄木鳥 (山拟啄木鸟) 'mountain pseudo peck-wood bird' (6) |
ゴシキドリ (五色鳥) go-shiki-dori 'five-coloured bird' |
Chim Cu rốc trán vàng 'yellow-foreheaded cu rốc bird' |
