PODARGUS JAVANENSIS. 
Ord. 11^ Les Passereaux, Cuvier. 2'° Famille. Les Fissirostres. 
Ord. IIP* Chelidones, Temmincfo 
Ord. VI. Passe res, Linn. Syst. 
Ord. II. Ambulatores, IUiger. Fam. 16, Hiantes. 
PODARGUS, Cuvier, 
Char. Gen. — Rostrum breve, crassissimum, subdepressum, grypaneum, aduncum, 
basi dilatato-ampli atum , capistro recumbente et vibrissis frontalibus porrectis 
obsitum. Maxilla posticc arcuatim sub oculos protensa lateribus subinflexis ; 
culmine basi subcarinato apicem versus obsolete rotundato ; derfro, elongato sub- 
cylindrico, obtuso, infra canaliculate, deflexo. Mandibuki basi flexura maxilla 
leviter exarata, gradatim attenuata, apice suboblique trnncata, ad excipiendam 
maxilla* dertrum emarginata, tomiis rectis subdiaphanis. Rictus amplissimus, 
vibrissa? mastacales nulla?. 
Nares submarginales, lineares, horizontales tomiis parallelae, capistro recondite 
squama depressa obtects, aut rima obsoletiore vix manifest®. 
Aim subelongata?. Cauda rotimdata. 
Pedes breves. Tarn subrobusti. Dtgiti breves liberi: balluce debiliore. Ungues 
parvi compressi, rectiusculi, simplices. 
Podargus rufescente-i sabcllinns fusco pulverulentus, Cauda undulato-fasciato. 
Chaba-wonno of the Javanese. 
Podargus Javanensis, Uorsfi SysL Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn, Trans, 
Vol XIII. p. 141. 
Several species of this genus have been discovered in New Holland : from 
their appearance, and the general distribution of colours on their plumage, they have 
been associated with the Goatsuckers. The Baron Cuvier named them Podarges in 
the IV th Volume of the Regne Animal, in the Addenda ; but the characters are very 
slightly indicated, and Mr. Bowdich has given them their proper place in the family 
to which they belong, and lias illustrated the genus by an instructive figure of the 
bill. As the peculiar characters are detailed in the generic description, I shall here 
