326 ’ ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 
Mbliphaga, Lewin. Bill moderate or short, weak : 
the under mandible not thickened. Lateral toes 
unequal; the inner the shortest. Tail rounded or 
graduated. Tongue bifid ; each division ending in 
numerous filaments. 
Meliphaga. Bill lengthened, as long or longer than 
the head. Wings rounded ; the sixth quill longest. 
Middle toe longer than the hallux; the inner toe 
considerably shorter than the outer. Tail rounded. 
* IVI. barbata. Ois. dor. pi. 57. Aiistralasiana- Ib. pL 55. 
Ptilotis, Sw. Bill short. Lateral toes almost equal. 
Tail slightly rounded, sometimes nearly even. Leads 
to Glyciphila. 
P. Lewinii. I.ew. Bds, pf. 5. leucotis. Lew. Bds. pi. 20. 
Zanthomiza, Sw. Bill moderate, much curved : the 
culmen considerably arched. Face naked. Middle 
toe longer than the hallux. The tenuirostral type. 
Z. Phrygia. Shaw. Zool. of N. H. pi. 4. 
Anthochara, Horsfield and Vigors Size large. Bill 
short. The nostrils extending half way from the 
base. Lower jaw with naked caruncles. Tail long, 
graduated. Middle and lunder toes of equal length. 
The rasorial type.t 
A. carunculata. White’s Voy. pi. 6. 
GLiciPHri.A, Sw. Habit of Meliphaga. Bill either 
shorter, or slightly longer, than the head : the notch 
in the upper mandible far removed from the tip. 
Tongue rather short, terminated by numerous fila- 
ments. The third and three following quills longest, 
and nearly equal. Lateral toes equal. Tail even. 
G. fulvifrons. Lewin, N. H. Birds, pi. 22. 
Antuomiza. Habit of Meliphaga. Bill rather short. 
Tongue ? AVings much rounded ; aU the 
* The Certhia Nova Hollandia of the old authors, and of which the mo- 
dern sericea^ 1 am led to believe, is but a sexual difference. 
f I hardly think it advisable to discriminate these subordinate types by 
snbgeneric names 5 but as that of Anthochara has been already done, 1 have 
designated what appear to me to be three of the others : the fifth I am un- 
acquainted with. 
