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and but slightly longer than the hind toe; lateral 
toes unequal, the inner shortest. Claws strong, and 
much curved. Australia. 
B. cinerea. Part 5. No. 51. 
Guavcoris, Forster. Bill short, strong, robust: the 
culmen elevated and curved from the base: upper 
mandible destitute of a notch; under mandible 
straight (on the gonys), the margin covered by that 
of the upper, and furnished at the base with two 
fleshy wattles. Nostrils basal, lateral, partly closed 
by a large membrane. Feet very strong, formed 
for walking. The tarsus longer than the middle toe: 
lateral toes short, of equal length, and divided to 
their base ; hind toe strong, armed with long curved 
claw. Wings short. Tail rather lengthened, rounded ; 
the feathers ending in setaceous points.* Pacific 
Islands. ) 
G. cinerea. Gm. Voy. Astrolobe. Ois. pl. 15. 
Susram. CORACINE. Fruit Crows. 
Bill thick, strong, hard, angulated, straight, depressed 
and widened at its base, compressed beyond: the cul- 
‘men slightly bent towards the end: the tip of the upper 
mandible slightly, or not at all notched ; inferior man- 
dible with the gonys straight and flattened. Gape with 
a few strong bristles. Nostrils basal, round, open in 
front, and either partially or entirely covered with 
feathers directed forwards. Feet short, strong, arbo- 
real. The tarsus shorter than the middle toe: the three 
anterior toes nearly of the same length; the lateral ones 
slightly connected at their base to the middle toe. 
Wings long ; the third, fourth, and fifth quills longest. 
Tail short. South America only. 
Coracina, Vieillot. (fig. 237. a,b) Front and base of 
_ the bill protected by short thick-set feathers. 
C. scutata. Pl. Col. 40. 
* Some of these characters, not inserted in my own notes, rest on the 
authority of the Manuel d’Ornith. i. Analyse, p. 5). 
