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Description.—Tail less than wing, but usually at least nine-tenths of 
it; throat feathers not lengthened ; tarsus scutellate; wing 314 to 4% 
times the tarsus ; tarsus 1144 to 1% times the culmen ; head not crested ; 
nuchal hairs short, much branched; rictal bristles rather weak, not 
reaching beyond the middle of the bill; bill rather long and slender, 
somewhat compressed, higher than broad at anterior edge of nostrils, 
approximately equal in height and breadth at base, the height at base 
about equal to one-third.the length of exposed culmen; culmen 
almost straight except at tip; gonys nearly straight—only slightly 
ascending ; maxillar tomium with but one subterminal notch; nostrils 
lengthened oval, operculate, the frontal feathering not extending to 
their posterior margin; nasal bristles few and short. 
Type.—Phyllastrephus terrestris SWAINSON. 
The rather long, slender bill, and straight culmen, in combination 
with various other characters, render this genus easily distinguishable 
_ from all its allies. 
The following species appear to be referable to this group, though ° 
a few of them are somewhat aberrant: 
Phyllastrephus terrestris terrestris Swainson (= capensis Swainson) .* 
Phyllastrephus terrestris suahelicus (Reichenow). 
Phyllastrephus strepitans strepitans (Reichenow) (=sharpet Shelley). 
‘Phyllastrephus strepitans rufescens (Hartlaub) (= pauper Sharpe, et par- 
vus Fischer and Reichenow). 
Phyllastrephus cerviniventris Shelley. 
Phyllastrephus fulviventris Cabanis. 
Phyllastrephus simplex (Hartlaub) (= harterti Reichenow, et marchei 
Oustalet). 
Phyllastrephus placidus (Shelley). 
Phyllastrephus poensis Alexander. 
Phyllastrephus cabanisi cabanisi (Sharpe). 
Phyllastrephus cabanisi sucosus (Reichenow). 
Phyllastrephus baumanni Reichenow. 
Phyllastrephus flavostriatus (Sharpe) (= tenuirostris Fischer and Reiche- 
now). 
Phyllastrephus alfredi (Shelley). 
Phyllastrephus debilis (W. Sclater). 
Phyllastrephus fischeri (Reichenow). 
Phyllastrephus kretschmeri Reichenow and Naumann. 
ARGALEOCICHLA? gen. nov. 
Chars. gen.—Similar to Phyllastrephus, but bill more depressed, 
much broader than high at base, about equal in height and breadth 
at anterior edge of nostrils, the height at base much less than one- 
*Cf. Richmond, Auk, 1900, p. 179. 
2apyanéoc, difficilis; xixAy, turdus. 
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