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slender. Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Lateral 
toes equal, but the outer claw shorter than the inner. 
Colour brown : lark-like. Distribution universal. 
The insessorial or pre-eminent type, 
rufeseens. P. E. 661.f. 1. bistrigat* and Australis. Part5. 
^o. 107, lOS. 
Macronyx, Sw. {fiy. 267.) Bill slen- 
der, compressed, thrush-like, entire. 
Nostrils large, naked, the aperture ^ 
lateral. Wings short; the pri- 
maries not longer than the tertials, , 
the four first of equal length; secondaries long, 
eraarginate. Tail moderate, even. Feet enormous. 
Tarsus and hinder toe very long, and of equal length. 
Lateral toes unequal, the inner shortest. Africa. 1 he 
rasorial type. 
M. flavicollis. O. d’A.pI.lSS. flavigaster. Sw. W. A. i. 215. 
Certhilauba, Sw. BQl slender, lengthened, more or 
less curved. Nostrils round, naked. Wings very 
long ; the first quiU spurious ; the three next nearly 
equal. Tail moderate, even. Feet lengthened. The 
lateral toes equal. Length of the hinder claw variable, 
although typically short and straight. Africa. The 
tenuirostral type. (_Jig. 268.) 
longirostra. Ois. d’Af. 192. nivosa. West. Af. i. 213 
bifasciata. Rupp. Atlas, pi. 5. 
SuBFAM. PYRRHULINiE. BuIJinchcs. 
Bill very short, thick, entire : the upper mandible 
arched both on the culmen and commissure. Wings 
with the four first quills of nearly equal length. 
