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Updated: May 5, 2025
These distinctions are sufficiently apparent when two species are seen side by side, but are scarcely sufficient to enable the ordinary observer to determine the species of a flock seen flitting about amid the foliage. This, however, need not disturb us. Most people are quite satisfied to know that these exquisite little birds are all called minivets.
It has no white in the wings and tail, and its rump is red instead of being white. Butcher-birds are of striking rather than beautiful appearance. They have some very handsome relatives which are known as minivets.
Every person must have seen a company of small birds with somewhat long tails, clothed in bright scarlet and black birds which flit about among the trees like sparks driven before the wind. These are cock minivets.
Minivets are birds of tit-like habits which wander about in small flocks from place to place picking insects from the leaves of trees. They are essentially arboreal birds. I have never seen a minivet on the ground. The head and back of the cock are black. His wings are black and flame-colour, the red being so arranged as to form a band running lengthwise and not across the wing.
A bird having a broad black band through the eye is probably a shrike, and if the bird in question habitually sits on an exposed branch or other point of vantage, and from thence swoops on to the ground to secure some insect, the probability of its being a butcher-bird becomes a certainty. Closely related to the shrikes are the minivets.
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