246 EHINOCHETID^. 



Family IV. RHINOCHETIDiE. 



Palate schizognathous. 



Nostrils schizorhinal. 



Rectrices 12 ; primaries 10. 



Oil-gland nude. 



No occipital foramina, basipterygoid processes, or supra-orbital 

 impressions. 



Sternum with no posterior notch. 



Ambiens muscle present. 



Femoro-caudal muscle present, but extremely thin ; semitendi- 

 nosus and accessory semitendinosus present. Accessory femoro- 

 caudal absent. An after-shaft to the contour feathers. 



A powder-down patch on each side of the rump. 



Four bare body-tracts extending some way up the neck. 



Bill about as long as the head ; the nostrils situated basally in a 

 rather broad depression, and entirely hidden by a bony sheath ; no 

 lateral groove in the mandible. 



Inner secondaries exceeding the primaries in length. 



Nest, egg, and young unknown. 



[Of. Murie, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 465, pis. 56, 57 (1871): Seebohm, 

 Classif. B. p. 39 ; Stejn. Stand. Nat. Hist. Birds, p. 118 ; Sharpe, 

 Classif. B. p. 74.] 



1. RHINOCHETUS. 



Type. 

 Rhinochetus, J. Verreaux ^ Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1860, p. 439 R. jubatus. 



Eange. Confined to New Caledonia. 



1. RMnochetus jubatus. 



Rhinochetus * jubatus, Verr. et Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860, 

 p. 440, tab. 21 ; iid. op. cit. 1862, p. 142 ; Scl. Ibis, 1861, p. 137, 

 note ; Bennett, t. c. p. 136 ; id. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. p. 342 

 (1864) ; id. ibid. xiv. pp. 141, 227 ; id. R Z. S. 1862, p. 84, 1863, 

 pp. 385, 439 ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 218, pi. 30 ; Jouan, Mim. 

 Soc. Cherb. ix. pp. 97, 235 (1863) ; Wolf, Zool. Sketches, 2nd ser. 

 pi. xlv. (1867); W. K. Rarker, R. Z. S. 1868, p. 2 ; Bartlett, t. c. 

 p. 115, pi. xii. ; Marie, Actes S. Linn. Bord. xxvii. p. 328 (1869) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 26, no. 10098 (1871); Murte, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. vii. p. 465, pis. 56, 57 (1871 ) ; Giebel, Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. viii. 

 p. 99 (1873) ; Egtoti, Osteol. Av. ii. pt. 1, p. 18, pi. 3 ; Scl. Ibis, 

 1876, p. 389 ; Rouget, Bull Soc. Acclim. (3) ii. pp. 162-171 (1875) ; 



* Tbe generic name has been written Rhynochetos and Bhinocketos. 



