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C. aura. Wilson, 75. 1. (fig.182.) Californian PC. 
atratus. Wilson, 75. 2. 
Neopuron, Savigny. Bill much lengthen, 
markably slender. Nostrils . 93 
longitudinal, nearly medial; 
cere occupying two thirds the 
length of the bill) Face and 
part of the neck naked. Tail ~- 
feathers 14, The tenuirostral type. 
N. percnopterus. Ois. d’Af. pl. 14. (fig. 183.) 
CaTHETuRUS, Sw.* Bill short, thick, curved almost 
from the base, but the tip not hooked. Nostril 
basal, and membranaceous; the aperture large, roun¢ 
central, and nearly naked. Head and neck with onh 
a few scattered feathers. Wings short, rounded. Te 
broad, of eighteen feathers. Feet strong ; anterior 
scales irregularly hexagonal: toes large; the lateral 
of equal length, and very little shorter than, the midd 
oe: all the claws long and slender. (fig. 92. Vol. 
p. 284.) The rasorial type. 
C. Australis. Ill. of Orn. pl.140. r| 
Gypak&tus, Storr. Bill strong, prenees upper man- 
dible elevated near the end, 
which is hooked; under man- 
dible provided, beneath, with 
a bunch of setaceous bristles, ? 
directed forwards. Nostrils oval, covered Hh de. 
fended by bristles. Feet short: the three anteri 
toes united to their base by a membrane ; the middle : 
toe very long: claws but slightly curved, Wings 
long ; the first quill rather shorter than the second, | 
the third longest. (fig. 184.) The fissirostral type. 
T. barbatus. Edwards, 106. Europe. | 
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Faminry FALCONIDA. The Falcons. 
Size moderate. Head and neck clothed with feathers, 
Bill curved, more or less, from the base: the tip of — 
* The Alecturus of Mr. Gray; but this name having been previously } 
given by Vieillot to a very distinct group of flycatchers, which I have re- — 
tained, it became necessary for me to propose another, 4 
