Genus- — L ICMETIS. 
Licmetis Wagler Abhandl. Ak. Wissen. Munch, Vol. I., 
p. 505, 1832 Type L. tenuirostris. 
Also spelt — 
Lycmetia Wagler, ib„ p. 738. 
Licmetes Heine, Nomenel. Mus. Hein., p. 224, 1890. 
Licmelis Giebel, Thes. Omith., Vol. III., p. 228, 1877. 
Limictis Blyth, Jo urn. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XXV., p. 447 note, 1856. 
Licmetua Tristram, Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 72, 1889. 
Medium-sized Kakatoeine birds with long bills, long wings, long tail and 
medium legs and feet. 
This genus agrees exactly in every detail in structure and coloration 
with Ducorpsius, only differing in the longer bill. 
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