Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
THE FREE-TOED PERCHING BIRDS
THE CHATTERERS
The Bell-birds
(Chasmorhynchus), which take their common appellation from their loud, resonant notes, resembling, it is said, the sound of a clear-ringing bell, or that produced by a blacksmith when he strikes a piece of steel on an anvil, are rather large birds, ten or more inches long, with long, pointed wings and short, strong toes. In color two of the four known species are snow-white and unspotted, that of the others being clear rufous-chestnut with the head and neck pure white, or pure white with the wings black.