MERULIDiE. 



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CAPRIMULGID^. 



GENUS XLV. 6.— .EGOTHELES, Vigors. 



The characters of this genus have not been pub- 

 lished : they are detailed by Mr. Vigors and Dr. 

 Horsfield in their descriptive catalogue of the New 

 Holland Birds in the Linnean Society's Collection, 

 and will probably appear in the fifteenth volume of 

 the Transactions of that body. 



MERULIDiE. 

 GENUS LXXXI. Zi.— UROTOMUS, Swainson. 



The characters of this genus, which is proposed by 

 Mr. Swainson in the second volume of the Zoological 

 Journal, are yet unpublished. 



GENUS XCI. 6.— CHAMtEZA, Vigors. 



nostrum subbreve, subforte, 

 culmine leviter arcuato. 



Nares basales, oblongo- 

 ovales, longitudinales, plu- 

 rals parvulis obtectis. 



Alee brevissimae, rotundse : 

 remex prima brevi, se- 

 ciinda et septima, tertia et 

 sexta sequales, quarta et 

 quinta fere aequales, lon- 

 gissimi ; pogoniis utrinque 

 fere integris. 



Beak rather short, somewhat 

 strong, the culmen slightly 

 bent. 



Nostrils oval, oblong-ovate, 

 longitudinal, clothed with 

 small feathers. 



Wings very short, round : 

 the first quill short, the 

 second and seventh, third 

 and sixth equal, the fourth 

 and fifth nearly equal, 

 longest : the webs on 

 either side nearly entire, 



