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quills more or less terminating in points. Tail 
forked. Lateral toes equal. The fissirostral type. 
A. coeruleoccphala. Miis. Carl. i. pi- 5. 
Leptoglossus, Sw. Habit of Cinnyris. Bill remark- 
ably long, slender, and curved. Tongue retractile, 
long, bifurcated, as in Trochilus. Lateral toes un- 
equal. Tail nearly even. The tenuirostral type. 
L. cucullatus. Ois. dores. pi. 60. 
Ptiloturos, Sw. Bill much lengthened, shghtly 
curved * the upper mandible dilated, and folding 
over the base of the under ; the margins of both 
inflected toivards their tips. Nostrils lengthened, 
the aperture linear. Wings moderate, rounded : the 
first quill spurious ; the four next very broad at their 
base, and emarginate at the inner web. Lateral claws 
unequal. Tail very long, graduated ; the middle 
feathers lax, and narrow. The rasorial type. 
1>. Capensis. Le Vaill. Af. vi. pi. 287, 288. 
Manobina, Vieillot. Bill short, robust: the under 
mandible thickened. Culrnen arched, and much 
elevated from the base, considerably compressed its 
whole length. Commissure curved. Upper man- 
dible notched near the tip. 
M. viridis. III. of Orn. pi. 78. 
Gymophryn, Sw. Bill short, subconic : the culrnen 
scarcely curved; the sides compressed ; the com- 
missure straight. Notch in the upper mandible remote 
from the tip. Tail even ; lateral. Claws unequal. 
G. torquatus. Lewin, N. H. Birds, pi. 24. 
Eidopsarux, Sw. Bill 
mwlerate, subconic, 
depressed its whole 
length,asin Sturnus. 
Culrnen flattened, 
with the base ad- 
vancing very far on 
the front. Commis- 
sure straight, hut 
angnlated at its base 
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Upper mandible remotely 
