86 Mr. Leadbeater on some new Species of Birds 



Rostrum subbreve, crassissimum, basi latissimum, rostri Loxia- 

 darnm robur crassitudinemque in extremum ferens : irre- 

 gulariter serratum ; mandibuld superiore dente conspicu^ 

 prope basin armatd ; tomiis angulum prope basin forman- 

 tibus. AliB subbreves, rotundatae, brunneaj ; remigibus supra 

 fusco-brunneis, subt^is fuscis ; remige secund^ prim^ pauld 

 longiori, tertiA^ quarts quints sext^que fer^ aequalibus lon- 

 gissimis, septira^ octav^ non^ decim4que gradatim breves- 

 centibus. Cauda mediocris, rotundata ; rectricibus dua- 

 bus raediis supr^ rufis, caeterAm pogoniis externis rufis, 

 internis fuscis, omnibus subt^s 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, aequalibus ; halluce subforti, subelon- 

 gato, tmgue sublongo, subfalcato ; unguibus omnibus com- 

 pressis. 



Longitudo corporis, OyV » <^^^ a carpo ad remigem quartam, 2|- ; 



'. ,^ tarsi, 1^; rostri ad frontem, |-, ad rictum, ^] altitude rostri 

 a basi gnathidiorum ad basin culminis ^ ; latitude inter 



gnathidia, 



Vo- 



I have referred this bird to the genus 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 



