1. OETHOirrx. 329 



f". Eictal bristles nearly obsolete ; bill 

 veiy deep. 

 l^. With four toes. 

 P. Upper mandible not deeply fes- 

 tooned. 

 l^. Tail perceptibly longer than 

 wing ; upper mandible 



deeper than lower 33. Conostoma, p. 485. 



m^. Tail and wing about equal 



in length ; under mandible 



about as deep as the upper. 



k''. Tip of culmen tapering- to a 



point ; culminal ridge 



rounded 34. Suthoea, p. 486. 



f. Tip of culmen obtuse and 

 nearly as broad at tip as it 

 is at base ; culminal ridge 



flattened 35. CHLErASicus,p.494. 



nr'. Upper mandible deeply fes- [p. 496. 



tooned 36. Paeadoxoekis, 



w*. With only three toes 37. Cholohnis, p. 498. 



1. ORTHONYX. 



Type. 

 Orthonyx, Tem7n. Man. d Orn. i. p. kxsi (1820) 0. spinicauda. 



Range. Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Wing-coverts tipped with grey ; eyebrow and 



ear-coverts grey. 



a'. Throat white spinicauda J, p. 330. 



6'. Throat orange-rufous sjiimcauda §, p. 330. 



b. Wing-coverts blackish without grey bars. 



c'. Throat white spaldingi ^ , p. 331. 



d'. Throat orange-rufous qmldinyi 5, p. 331. 



1. Orthonyx spinicauda*. 



Orthonyx spinicaudus, Temm. PI. Col. iv. pis. 428, 429 (1827) ■ 

 Gouhl, B. Austr. foho, iv. pi. 99 (1848) ; Gratj, ~Gen. £. i. p "151 

 (1847) ; £p. Comp. i. p. 216 (1850) ; JReichtnh. Vog. :Seulioll. 

 p. 214 (1850) ; Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. G07 (1865) ; Gray 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 185, no. 2532 (18G9) ; Higgles, Orn. Austr. pi. 70 

 (c. 1870) ; liumsay, Froc. Linn. 80c. N.lS. W.i\. p. lyi (1876). 



Orthonyx temminckii, Vig. S; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc xv p -594 

 (182U). • tf- - ) 



Orthonyx maculatns, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 186 (1826). 



* Temminck founded the genus Orthoni/x in 1820, but did not name any 

 species. In 1826 Vigors and Horsfield and Stephens gave names to the 

 typical species ; but neither of these were recognized by Temminck in IS^T 

 when be called it 0. spinicaudus. Although there can be little doubt that both 

 the names temminckii and maculatus were published before that of spinicaudus 

 yet the impossibihty of stating which of these two names was published first 

 and the general acceptance of Temminck's name by all ornithologists detep^ 

 mine mc to retain it. ' 



