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V. Descriptions of some new Species of Birds belonging chiefly 

 to the rare Genera Phyfotoma, 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. 



Among the numerous accessions Avhich 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. Insessores. Vigors. 

 Tribus. Conirostres. Cuv. 



Fam. LoxiAD^. Vigors. 

 Genus. Phytotoma. Gmel. 



Ferreo-rostre. p. brunneum, capite, guld, cauddque suprd 

 rufls ; rostro nigro, crassissimo. 



Rostrum 



