ee . MELIPHAGID A. 327 
quills more or less terminating in points. Tail 
forked. Lateral toes equal. The fissirostral type. 
A. coruleocephala. Mus. Car]. 1. pl. 5. 
Leprocossus, Sw. Habit of Cinnyris. Bill remark- 
ably long, slender, and curved. ‘Tongue retractile, 
long, bifurcated, as in Trochilus. Lateral toes un-- 
equal. Tail nearly even. The tenuirostral type. 
L. cucullatus. Ois. dorés. pl. 60. 
Pritorurus, Sw. Bill much lengthened, slightly 
curved: the upper mandible dilated, and folding 
over the base of the under; the margins of both 
inflected towards their tips. Nostrils lengthened ; 
the aperture linear. Wings moderate, rounded: the 
first quill spurious ; the four next very broad at their 
base, and emarginate at the inner web. Lateral claws 
unequal. Tail very long, graduated ; the middle 
feathers lax, and narrow. ‘The rasorial type. 
P. Capensis. Le Vaill. Af. vi. pl. 287, 288. 
Mawnorina, Vieillot. Bill short, robust: the under 
mandible thickened. Culmen arched, and much 
elevated from the base, considerably compressed its 
whole length. Commissure curved. Upper man- 
dible notched near the tip. 
M. viridis. Il. of Orn. pl. 78. 
Gymophrys, Sw. Bill short, subconic: the culmen 
scarcely curved; the sides compressed; the com- 
missure straight. Notch in the upper mandible remote 
from the tip. Tail even; lateral. Claws unequal. 
G. torquatus. Tewaes N. H. Birds, pl. 24. 
Eidopsarus, Sw. Bill 
moderate, subconic, 
depressed its whole 
length,asin Sturnus. 
‘Culmen flattened, 
with the base ad- 
vancing very far on 
the front. Commis- 
sure straight, but 
angnlated at its base. Upper mandible remotely 
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