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Subclass CARINATiE. 
Order PASSERES. 
Family CORVIDiE. Crows. 
Genus GLAUCOPIS, Gmelin. Endemic. 
Generic characters. Bill short, strong, with the culmen elevated at the base, and suddenly curved from the 
base to the tip, which is entire; the sides compressed, and the gonys lengthened and slightly arched; the nostrils 
basal, lateral, pierced in a membranous channel, and the opening partly concealed by the frontal plumes. Wings 
short and rounded, with the sixth and seventh quills equal and longest. Tail moderately long and rounded, with 
the shaft of each feather ending in a bristly point. Tarsi long, longer than the middle toe, and strongly scutellated 
in front, with one lengthened scale. Toes moderate, the lateral ones unequal and free at their base, the outer toe 
the longest ; the hind toe very long and strong, and all armed with strong curved claws. 
Family STURNID.ZE. Starlings. 
Genus HE1ERALOCHA, Cabcinis. Endemic. 
Gen. char. Bill long, arched, and acutely pointed, with the culmen, lateral margins, and gonys curved to 
the tips - much produced in the female, forming a sexual character; the sides compressed; the nostrils basal, 
lateral and placed in a short, broad, membranous groove, which is mostly covered by the projecting plumes, 
lea vino- the opening small and exposed. Wings long and rounded, with the fifth, sixth, and seventh quills nearly 
equal and longest. Tail rather long, broad, and somewhat rounded. Tarsi much longer than the middle toe 
robust and curved in front, with slightly divided broad scales. Toes long and robust, with the inner toe shorter 
than the outer and free at the base; the outer united at its base ; the hind toe two thirds the length of the tarsus, 
and armed with a very long, strong, curved, acute claw ; those of the fore toes long, curved, and acute. 
