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Without any peailiar eyebrow of wax- 

 like plumelets ; plumag-e ordinary. 

 e". Bastard-primaiy moderate or very 

 small, not exceeding the primai-y^ 

 coverts. 

 A\ Tail not exceeding the wing in 

 length ; head bare, with a narrow 



median line of feathers 12. 



p. Wing longer than tail ; crown fea- 

 thered ; throat feathered, never 

 entirely bare, though sometimes 

 the chin may be. 

 d\ Tail nearly square, the centre 

 feathers scarcely exceeding the 

 outer ones. 

 a\ Head with ornamental yellow 

 lappets ; nosti-ils with dense 



feathers 13. 



b'\ With no lappets ; region of 

 the eye and eyebrow and chin 



bare 14. 



c'. With no lappets ; a bare patch 



behind the eye. 



a'. Nostrils exposed, the frontal 



feathers not extending in 



front of the line of the 



nostrils 15. 



6^. Nostrils completely hidden, 

 the feathers of the forehead 

 recurved and produced in 



front 16. 



rf5. With no lappets and no bare 

 places on the head and throat, 

 c". BiU elongated, the cuknen 

 about the same length as 

 the tarsus, 

 a'. Secondaries with long 

 filamentous appendages 

 near the base of the outer 

 web of secondaries .... 17. 

 t'. Secondaries without fila- 

 mentous fringes 18. 



d"'. Culmen much shorter than 



tarsus. 



c'. Bill gently curved, with 



the mandibles about 



equal ; culminal ridge 



rounded 19. 



rf'. Bill short, the culminal 

 ridge well marked ; up- 

 per mandible strongly 

 curved and extending 

 beyond the lower one . . 20. 



e^. Tail strongly graduated 21, 



k^. Tail longer than wing. 



/■*. With no bare space round the 



eye 22. 



g\ With a bare patch all round the 

 eye 23. 



Sarcops, p. 96. 



Mainatus, p. 98. 

 MiNO, p. 111. 



JlELANOFYREHrs, 



[p. 113. 



Ampeliceps, p. 115. 



PSAHOGLOSSA, p. 117. 



IIartlaubius, p. 120. 



Pholidaugbs, p. 121. 



Aplonis, p. 125. 

 Calobnis, p. 137. 



Macburopsar, p. 152. 

 Streptocitta, p. 152. 



