Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 393 
Genus. TROPIDORHYNCHUS*. 
Rostrum forte, subelongatum, culmine elevato, maximè cultrato, 
arcuato; mandibuld superiori ad apicem vix emarginatà ; 
naribus prope medium sitis, subovalibus, apertis, perviis. 
Ale longitudine mediocres, subrotundatæ ; remige primá brevi, 
. secundá tertià parte longiori, tertià quartà et quintà æqua- 
libus longissimis, sextá his paulo breviori. 
Cauda subelongata, æqualis. 
Pedes fortes, longitudine mediocres ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, para- 
tarsiis integris. ; 
Caput plus minusve nudum. 
The strong bill, with its elevated keel, and the nostrils oval, 
pervious, and situated near the middie of the beak, offers a very 
distinguishing character by which this group is known from the 
more typical Meliphagide. We know not upon what authority 
they are said to be Honey-Eaters; but the above-mentioned 
form and situation of the nares are so different from what is 
fuscis ad apices albis, istis in medio intern? pallide castaneis ; lateribus colli carun- 
culá brevi subovali compressá instructis. 
Genarum plumule a rictu sub oculos extendentes albæ, sericeæ, breves. Tectricum 
remigumque plume albido marginatæ, harum pogoniis internis in medio castaneo- 
marginatis, fasciam castaneam, alis clausis, subtus exhibentibus. Rostrum ni- 
grum. Pedes flavescentes. Longitudo corporis, 11; ale a carpo ad remigem 
quartam, 63; caude, 675; rostri ad rictum, 145, ad frontem, Li farsi, lj. 
In Museo Societatis Zoologicæ. 
Memorie Domini JOANNIS GULIELMI LEWIN, peregrinatoris in Australiá seduli 
sagacissimique, qui Meliphagidarum characteres primüm detexit et illustravit, 
hec avis sit sacra. 
The Poe Honey-Eater of Dr. Latham, Merops Nove Zealandie, Gmel. (M. concin- 
natus, Lath.) may be referred to this group, of which it has the bill and the general 
characters. In its tail only it differs, which is slightly rounded at the apez. 
* Tpomis carina, and puyxos rostrum. 
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