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down above the nostril. The nostril is oval, cartilaginous above, situated 
at the base of the maxilla; the wing is long and pointed, longer than the tail, 
the quill longest, slightly exceeding the 4*'", the secondaries hardly reaching 
more than half the length of the wdng. A partial migrant. Probably parasitical. 
Feeds on insects, seeds. 
GENUS SCYTHROPS Lath. 
Description as for the subfamily. 
74. SCYTHROPS NOVAE HOLLANDIAE Lath. 
Channel-bill. 
Scythrops novae-hollandiae (1) Lath., Ind. Orn. 1790, I, 141; (II) Temm., PL Ool. 1824, 
290; (III) Vieill. & Ouch, Gral. Ois. I, 1825, 27, p. 39; (IV) Less., Tr. d’Orii. 1831, 
128 pi. 23, f. 1; (V) Lafresn., Mag. de Zool. 1835, pi. 37 (juv.); (VI) KUster, 
Orn. Atlas 1838, pt. 15, pi. 4; Sal. Muller, Wieg. Arch. 1840, Xn, 116; (VII) 
Gld., B. Austr. 1848, IV, pi. 90; (8) Wall., Ibis 1860, 147; (9) id., P. Z. S. 1863, 
485; (10) Sell!., Mus. P.-B. Cucuh 1864, 36; (11) Gld., Handh. B. AusA. 1865, I, 
628; (XII) Biggies, Orn. Austr. 1866, pt. TV, pL; (13) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, Vni, 
27, 51; (13’>^^) Eosenh., Malay. Arch. 1878, 275; (14) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 07; (15) 
Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1880,1, 372, and Agg. 1889, 52; 1891, 220; (16) Vinsch, Mtth. 
Orn. Ver. Wien 1884, VIIL, 93; (17) Meyer, Isis 1884, 18; (18) Guillem., P. Z. S. 
188.5, 549; (19) W. Bias., Ztschr. ges. Orn. 1885, 208, 260; (20) Eamsay, Pr. L. See. 
X. S. W. 1886, 1094; (21) Xorth, ih. 1887, 410; id., ih. 1888, 1780; (22) Earns., 
Tab. List 1888, 15; (23) Cox & Hamil., Pr. L. Soc. X. S. W. 1889, 416; (24) Tristr., 
Oat. Coll. B. 1889, 82; (25) Xorth, Xests & Eggs B. Austr. 1889, 248, pi. VII, fig. 3 
(egg); (26) Shelley, Cat. B. XIX, 1891, 330; ('27; Baldamus, Lehen d. Kuckucke 
1892, 154; Newton, Diet. B. 1893, 84, 125 note; Meyer, Vogel- 
skel. pt. XIX, 60, t. CLXXXV (1894); (29) M. & Wg., .1. f. 0. 1894, 241; (30) iid.. 
Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895, Xr. 8, p. 6; (31) Hartert, Xov. Zool. 1896, 159, 243; 
(32) Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1896, 69. 
a. Australian Channel-Bill (I) Lath., Syn. Suppl. 1801, II, 96, pi. 124; (II) id., Gen. Hist. 
1822, ir, 300, pi. 32. 
h. Scythrops australasiae (I) Shaw, Gen. Zool. 1811, VHI, 2, 378, pi. 50. 
c. Cucnlus praesagus (1) Eeinw., MS. tide Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 97; (2) Eeinw., Eeiz. Ind. 
Arcliiji. in 1821, 1858, 592. 
d. Scythrops novae-hollandiae var. praesagus Brligg., Aldi. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 56. 
“Laebukua”, Talaut (Xat. Coll.). 
“Ulaato", Bone, Gorontalo Distr. (Eosenh. 7,9''“). 
“Kapureh" near Manado (“Purej” — Xat. Coll.). 
“Krok”, Minahassa (Meyer 14). 
“Uriah”, Tjamha Distr., S. Celebes (Platen 10). 
“Alo puti”, Bonthain, S. Celel)es (Eihhe & Kiihn). 
For further synonymy and references see Salvad. 75; Shelley 26. 
Figures and descriptions. Latham a /, all] Shaw b I] Temminck 11] Vieillot III] 
Lesson IV] Lafresnaye V] Kiister VI] Gould VII] Biggies XII] Meyer 
XX F///*"'® (skeleton); Salvadori75; W. Blasius 7.9; North 25 (egg); Shelley 26. 
