86 Mr. LEADBEATER on some new Species of Birds 
Rostrum subbreve, crassissimum, basi latissimum, rostri Loxia- 
. darum robur crassitudinemque in extremum ferens: irre- 
gulariter serratum ; mandibulá superiore dente conspicuá 
prope basin armatá ; ¢omiis angulum prope basin forman- 
tibus. Ale subbreves, rotundate, brunnez ; remigibus suprà 
fusco-brunneis, subtüs fuscis ; remige secundá prima pauld 
longiori, tertià quartà quintà sextáque feré zequalibus lon- 
gissimis, septima octavà nonà decimáque gradatim breves- 
centibus. -Cauda mediocris, rotundata ; rectricibus dua- 
bus mediis suprà rufis, czeterüm pogoniis externis rufis, 
internis fuscis, omnibus subtüs fuscis. Pedes mediocres, 
fusco-brunnei, tetradactyli; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratar- 
siis integris; digitis subgracilibus ; exteriore usque ad arti- 
culum primum medio connexo; medio elongato, duobus 
externis subbrevibus, eequalibus ; Aalluce subforti, subelon- 
. gato, ungue sublongo, subfalcato; unguibus omnibus com- 
pressis. 
. Longitudo corporis, 57y; ale a carpo ad remigem quartam,. 24; 
tarsi, +; rostri ad frontem, 2, ad rictum, 4; altitudo rostri 
a basi gnathidiorum ad basin culminis 4; latitudo inter 
unio. al. 
e have referted this xm to iig — Phytotoma of Gmelin, 
with the general characters of which it sufficiently accords. 
The bill, however, is of such extraordinary dimensions, and the 
bird exhibits in other respects such peculiar characters, that I 
make no doubt it will be found, when closely compared with 
the birds of that genus, to form a distinct group from them. 
Hitherto I have had no opportunity of making such a compa- 
rison, having never seen a specimen of the true Phytotoma ; and 
I do not feel myself authorized to form my bird into a new 
genus without a more accurate knowledge of that group, with 
which 
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