LOG-RUNNEES 



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Fanvily Timeliidce. 



Group Crateropodes. Babbling Thrushes. 

 True Babbling Thrushes, remarkable for their strong clumsy 

 feet and powerful rounded wings. As a rule they are gregarious 

 in their habits, and are poor songsters, but there is much in their 

 form which is suggestive of the true Thrushes. (Sharpe). 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Shafts of tail feathers produced and stiffened. 



B. Shafts of tail feathers ordinary. 



1. Tail longer than wing. 



Tail less graduated, the distance between 

 the outer and the middle tail quills less 

 than the tarsus. No crest. 

 Tarsus short, one-fourth of length of tail. 

 Tarsus very long, one-third of length of tail. 



Legs less stout, hind toe and claw less 

 than half length of tarsus. 

 Quills of tail much graduated, third 



much shorter than fourth. 

 Quills of tail less graduated, third 

 nearly equal to fourth. 

 Legs stouter, hind toe and claw more 

 than half tarsus. 

 Tail strongly graduated, the distance between 

 the outer and the middle tail quills longer 

 than the tarsus. A large crest. 



2. Tail not longer than wing. 



Bill long, culmen longer than tarsus. 

 Culmen much shorter than tarsus. 



Wing Pipit-like, pointed, the inner secondaries 



nearly equal to the primaries. 

 Wing not so pointed, the inner secondaries not 

 much longer than the rest. 



Orthonyx. 



Cinclosoma. 



Pycnoptilus. 

 Drymaoadus. 

 Hylacola. 



Psophodes. 

 Pomatorhinus. 



Cin clorhamphus. 

 Calamanthus. 



Genus Orthonyx. Log-runners. 

 The genus comprises two species, limited to the Eastern 

 coastal brushes of Australia. 



The Spine-tailed Log-runner, 0. temmincki (spinicauda). — Brushes of New 

 Soutli Wales and South Queensland. Head and back reddish -brown; 

 wings black; tail dark brown; wing-coverts tipped with grey; 

 eyebrow and ear-coverts grey; throat, breast and abdomen white. 

 In the female the throat is orange-rufous. Length 7.3 inches. Lays 

 two eggs, size 1.14 x .85 inch. 



The Black-headed Log-runner, 0. spaldingi. — North-east Australia. Head, 

 face and nape black; back dark chocolate-brown; wings and tail dark 

 brown; wing-coverts, blackish-brown not tipped with grey; ear- 

 coverts black; throat and breast white; abdomen brown. In the 

 female the throat is orange-rufous. Length 9.5 inches. Lays one 

 egg, which measures 1.39 x .94 inch. 



