On the Genera Ilcnicornis and Cldlia. 451 



XVI. — On the Genera Henicornis and Cliilia. 

 By T. Salvadori, H.M.B.O.U. 



The genus Henicornis, under the incorrect form Enicornis, 

 "was established by G. R. Gray as a substitute for Ere- 

 mobius of GouUl (ncc Eremobia Stepli.), the type of 

 "which is Ereniobias phmnicuriis Gould. To the same genus 

 have been attributed three other species : //. melunura 

 G. R. Gr. and the more recently described H, striata Allen and 

 H. tvat/lsi Scott, but I am not acquainted with the two latter. 



Of H. melanura the Museum of Turin possesses four speci- 

 mens, and I must say that they appear to me generically 

 different from H. phwnicura, the bill being mucii longer and 

 straight, while in H. phoenicura it is shorter "with tlie culmen 

 slightly curved. The genus Henicornis comes very near to 

 Cincludes, having the bill almost the same j but the tarsus 

 and the wings are shorter. 



I propose to separate H. melanura generically "«itli the 

 following characters : — 



Chilia, gen. nov. Differt a genere Henicornis dicto rostro 

 lougiore et recto, minime incurvato, gonyde ascendente, 

 fere sittino. 



Henicorxis. 



Type. 

 Eremobius Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii. 



p. 69 (1839) (nee Eremobia Steph., 1829). E. pbceniciirus. 



Enicornis G. R. Gray, List Gen. B. p. 17 

 (1840) E. 2/h(enici(ra. 



Henicornis Agass. Nomencl. Zool., Index, 

 p. 178 (1846). 



Ericornis Cass, in Gillis, Un. St. Astron. 

 Exp. ii. p. 188 (1855). 



Henicornis phcenicura. 



Eremobius pha>.nicurus Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, Birds, 

 p. 69, pi. 21 (1839) ^ (Port Desire, St. Julian, Santa Cruz, 



* The date 1841 generally attributed to the ' Birds of the Vovage of 

 the Beagle ' is not exact, as G. E,. Gray in the ' List of the Genera of Birds ' 

 published in 1840, but dated October 1839, mentions the Eremobius 

 Ijlicenicurus of Gould, and quotes the ' Yoyage of the Beagle.' 



