320 Mr. Vigor s's aîid Dr. Hors field's Description of the 



Genus. Antiiochyera*. 



Rostrum elongatum, subattenuatum, subarcuatum ; culmine ad 

 basin subcarinato ; mandibulâ superiori vix emarginatâ ; 

 naribus longitudinalibus, linearibus, membranâ suprà tec- 

 tis, ad medium rostrum extendentibus ibique apertioribus. 



Lingua ad apicem in setas plnrimas divisa. 



Ahr médiocres, rotundatœ ; rémige prima brevi secunda tertiâ 

 parte longiori, tertiâ gradatim longiori, quartâ quintâ et 

 sextâ œqualibus longissimis ; tertiœ ad septimam inclusam 

 pogoniis externis in medio gradatim latioribus. 



Couda elongata, rotundata, vix gradata. 



Pedes fortes, longitudine médiocres ; acrotarsiis scutellatis, para- 

 tarsiis integris. 



'l'iie strong, but at the same time lengthened and attenuated 

 bill of this group, added to the size and powerful conformation 

 of the species, distinguish it from the true Meliphaga. The 

 lengthened and subgraduated tail also serves as a strong mark 

 of distinction. The chief external characters of the group asso- 

 ciate it with the Meliphagidœ, although upon a decidedly enlarged 

 scale ; and the tongue of one of the species, now before us, 

 exhibits the filamentous formation peculiar to the Australian 

 Honcy-Eafcrs. The genus is closely allied to the last ; the same 

 general character pervades them : but the bill of the present 

 genus is longer and slenderer, and the tail lengthened and some- 

 what graduated instead of being even, as in Myzantha. There 

 is a general similarity of colours throughout the group, which 

 has led, as we suspect, to several species being confounded 

 together under one denomination. 



j\I. \'ieillot has referred this bird to a new genus of his, which 

 he names Creadion, and which he divides into two sections ; one 



* Avêosjfos, and x^tpoo gaudeo. 



represented 



