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V. Descriptions of some new Species of Birds belonging chiefly 
to the rare Genera Phytotoma, Gmel., Indicator, Vieill., and 
Cursorius, Latham. By Mr. Benjamin Leadbeater, F.L.S. 
Communicated by the Zoological Club of the Linnean Society. 
Read December 20, 1825. 
Amonc the numerous accessions which have taken place to our 
stock of Ornithology within the last few years, a few species 
belonging to some of the rarer genera have fallen into my hands, 
the descriptions of which may not prove unacceptable to this 
Society. Next to the interest which is excited by the discovery 
of species that exhibit any novel modification of form, may be 
considered that which arises from the accession of species to 
groups either little known, or which are of rare occurrence. 
The following birds are for the most part of this latter descrip- 
tion. They belong to genera, of which the species have hitherto 
not only been much limited in number, but which are so rare as 
to have come but seldom under the inspection of ornithologists. 
Ordo. Iwszrssonrs. Vigors. 
Tribus. Conirostres. Cuv. 
Fam. Loxriapz. Vigors. 
Genus. Puytotoma. Gmel. 
FzgnnEo-nosTRE. PP. brunneum, capite, gulá, caudáque supra | 
rufis ; rostro nigro, crassissimo. 
Rostrum 
