318 Mr. ViGons's atid Dr. Horsfield's Description of the 



One of the specimens of this species in the collection was 

 broil o^ht by Mr. Brown from Port Jackson, where he met with 

 it in August 1803. The species comes very near the first sub- 

 division of this genus, having a stronger bill, and rather more 

 elongated toes than the birds of the present section. The shape 

 of its tail however, which is even, retains it in its present situa- 

 tion, but at that extreme of the section which joins the first sub- 

 division, and completes the circular succession of the whole 

 group. 



This species bears some resemblance to M.Vieillot's Ileorotairc 

 hrun {pi. 65.), the Certhia fusca, Gmel.; but it is difterently 

 marked on the throat and lower body ; and as it belongs to a 

 different locality it may be considered distinct. 



Genus. Myzantua*. 

 Rostrum forte, subbreve, subrectum, ad apicem compressum, 

 culmine carinato, paululum arcuato ; naribus linearibus, 

 antice ovalibus, membranâ supra tectis, ad basin plumulis 

 confertis opertis ; mandibuld superiori leviter emarginatâ. 

 J la médiocres, subrotundatœ : rémige prima brevi, secundâ du- 

 ple longiore, tertiâ paulù breviore quartâ et quintâ, quie 

 sunt tequales longissimœque omnium. 

 Pedes médiocres ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, paratarsiis integris. 

 Cauda subelongata, subrotundata. 

 Obs. OrhitcE nuda?. 



This group approaches very nearly to the shorter- and stronger- 

 billed birds of Meliphaga, such as AI. auricomis. Lath. ; but the 

 bill is considerably stouter at the base and less arcuated. The 

 nares also are not so linear, but become slightly oval towards 

 the anterior part. The space round the eye is naked. We are 

 assured that the tongue of the first species is bristly towards the 



* MuÇac/j siigo, and avùoçjios. 



point : 



