544 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 
The bill is usually short and stout, but is Crow-like in Manu- 
codia and Lycocoraz, long and decurved in Ptilorhis, Paryphephorus, 
LIanthothorax, Seleucides, and Falcinellus, and becomes slender and 
sickle-shaped in Drepanornis; the maxilla is in some cases notched, 
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(From Nature). 
Fic. 124.—D’Albertis’ Bird of Paradise. Drepanornis albertisi. x 2 
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and in Scenopoeetes bidentate. The metatarsi are strong and fairly 
long, the outer and middle toes are slightly united, and the hallux 
is large. The wings are moderate or short, being especially rounded 
in Bower-birds ; the tail may be enormously elongated and gradu- 
ated, as in both sexes of Fuleinellus, Astrapia, and Paradigalla ; 
less graduated and shorter, as in Drepanornis ; of medium length, 
