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smoothness of the bare face, while the feathers descend over the 

 lores, thereby overhanging the nostril. To true Phcenicophaes it is 

 allied by the shape of the nostrils, but differs in its smooth face and 

 feathered lores, while it even shows slight indications of a nasal 

 groove, which is an approach to Rhinococcyx. 



Genus 9. Zanclostomus. Type- 



Zanclostomus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 323 (1837) Z. javanicus, 



Fig. 13. 



Head of Zanclostomus Javanicus. 



This genus has a long and slender bill compared with the other 

 members of the subfamily, much widened at the base, where it is 

 broader than it is high. The lores and sides of face are feathered, 

 much reducing the bare space, which is not rough. 



Genus 10. Poliococcyx, gen. nov. 



The type of this genus is P. sumatranus, which differs from all 

 the others in its curiously ascending nostrils. It much resembles 



Head of Poliococcyx sumatranus. 



R. diardi in general characters, even to the narrow line of loral 

 feathers skirting the base of the beak and separating the latter 

 from the bare face. 



Genus 11. Ceuthmochares. 



Ceutkmochares, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hem. Th. iv. Type, 

 p. 60 (1 862) C. aeneus. 



