544 PASSERIFORMES CHAP. 



The bill is usually short and stout, but is Crow-like in Manu- 

 codia and Lycocorax, long and decurved in Ptilorhis, ParyphepJiorus, 

 lanthothorax, Seleucides, and Falcinellus, and becomes slender and 

 sickle-shaped in Drepanornis; the maxilla is in some cases notched, 



FIG. 124. B'Albertis' Bird of Paradise. Drepanornis albertisi. x . (From Nature). 



and in Scenopoeetes bideiitate. 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 Falcinellus, Astrapia, and Paradigcdla ; 

 less graduated and shorter, as in Drepanornis ; of medium length, 



