326 ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. __ 
Menipuaca, Lewin. Bill moderate or short, weak : 
the under mandible not thickened. Lateral toes 
unequal ; the inner the shortest. Tail rounded or 
graduated. Tongue bifid; each division ending in 
numerous filaments. i 
Meliphaga. Bill lengthened, as long or longer than 
the head. Wings rounded ; the sixth quill longest. — 
Middle toe longer than the hallux; the inner toe 
considerably shorter than the outer. Tail rounded. 
* Mz barbata. Ois. dor. pl. 57. Australasiana. Ib. pl. 55. 
Ptilotis, Sw. Bill short. Lateral toes almost equal. 
Tail slightly rounded, sometimes nearly even. Leads — 
to Glyciphila. s 
P. Lewinii. Lew. Bds. pl. 5. leucotis. Lew. Bds. pl. 20. 
Zanthomiza, Sw. Bill moderate, much curved: the — 
culmen considerably arched. Face naked. Middle 
toe longer than the hallux. The tenuirostral type. — 
Z. Phrygia. Shaw. Zool. of N. H. pl. 4. i) 
Anthochera, Horsfield and Vigors | Size large. Bill” 
short. The nostrils extending half way from the 
base. Lower jaw with naked caruncles. ‘Tail long, 
graduated. Middle and hinder toes of equal length, 
The rasorial type.t | t 
A. carunculata. White’s Voy. pl. 6. t 
P as F . 4 
Guicrpuina, Sw. Habit of Meliphaga. Bill either — 
shorter, or slightly longer, than the head: the notch — 
in the upper mandible far removed from the tip. 
Tongue rather short, terminated by numerous fila- — 
ments. The third and three following quills longest, 
and nearly equal. Lateral toes equal. ‘Taileven, 
G. fulvifrons. Lewin, N. H. Birds, pl. 22. % 
AntuomizA. Habit of Meliphaga. Bill rather short. 
Tongue ————~—? Wings much rounded ; all the 
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* The Certhia Nove Hollandie of the old authors, and of which the mo- 
dern Meliphaga sericea, 1 am led to believe, is but a sexual difference, __ 
+ I hardly think it advisable to discriminate these subordinate types by 
subgeneric names ; but as that of Anthochera has been already done, I have 
designated what appear to me to be three of the others; the fifth I am un. 
acquainted with. 7h 
