AND ALLIED GEN'EBA. 95 



Ge^US Orfygocichia. 



Type: The only species of the geni-. 



Bill slender, but rather broad at the base, rictal bristles 

 short, reaching the nasal aperture, which is linear, tail 

 strongly graduated (the outermost pair of tail-feathers rery 

 short) nearly as long as the wing, tarsi and toes long and 

 strong , the first less than half the length of the tail , crown 

 like the back in color, the rusty-red sides of the head 

 reaching abore the eye, thus forming a broad eyebrow of 

 this color. This genus diSers from the preceding by the 

 broader bill, the longer rictal bristles and the crown being 

 of the same color as the back. 



1. Ortygoekhla ndnginom. 



Ortygodchla r^jbigiruna Sclater, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 452, pi. 39; SaiTad- 

 Orn. Pap. EL p. 679 (1881); Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 560 (1883). 



Hab. Xew Britain. 



An adult female, collected by Dr. Kleinschmidt, in the 



Leyden Museum. 



Geïtcs Elaphrornis . 



Type: The only species of the genoa. 



Bill slender, nasal aperture linear, rictal bristles rery 

 short , tail somewhat longer than wing , strongly graduated, 

 twice and a half the length of the tarsus : this latter strong, 

 more than an inch in length; toes long. Yery modestly 

 colored, abore olire-brown, beneath grayish oliye-^nreen . 

 eyebrow mouse-gray. 



1. Z2aphromiê Pallkeri. 



BraeJifpteryx PaUheri Blyth, Joam. As. Soc. Beng. ÏX, p. 178 (1851), 

 Elapkromii paUiseri Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 514, pi. XTT V fig. 9 

 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 517 (188-3). 



Hab. Ceylon, 



^otes from the Lieyden. Bfloseaxn, "VoL XVTI. 



