Genus — P TEROPODOCYS. 
Pteropodocys Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxv. 
(Vol. II., pi. 59), 1st December, 1846. 
Type (by monotypy) ... ... ... Graucalus phasianellus Gould 
= Geblepyris maxima Riippell. 
Large Caxnpophagine birds with small heads, small bills, long pointed wings, 
very long, peculiar forked tails and long, stout legs and feet. 
The bill is short and about the same length as the head, which is compara- 
tively small ; the culmen is curved, the tip notched but only a little decurved, 
the edge a little sinuate ; the laterals expand basally and the tip is somewhat 
attenuate, forming a lengthened triangular bill, the depth at the base being 
nearly half the length of the bill ; the under mandible is similarly basally 
expanded, rather shallow, the interramal space fully feathered, the gonys 
half the length of the mandible, the tip acute ; nostrils placed in groove at 
base of culmen and hidden by encroachment of frontal feathering ; rictal 
bristles short. 
The wings are very long, the feathers rather narrow ; the third, fourth 
and fifth longest, the fourth generally a little exceeding the other pair ; the 
second a little less, and a little longer than the sixth ; the first short and narrow 
about half the length of the second, and about equal to the secondaries. 
The tail is composed of twelve feathers and is very long and peculiarly 
forked, as the outer feather is rather short and the next two inside are the 
longest, the fourth from the outside a little shorter, the fifth shorter and longer 
than the outside feather, but the two middle feathers are shorter than the 
outer and little more than half the length of the longest feathers ; the tail- 
coverts, both upper and under, are long, but do not quite reach to the middle 
tail-feathers. 
The feet are long and strong, the outer side of the tarsus showing six broad 
valid scutes, the back being bilaminate with a few small scutes at heel ; the 
toes show strong scutation above ; the outer toe is not much less than the 
middle one and a little longer than the inner ; the hind-toe is almost as long 
as the middle one, the hind claw long ; the anterior claws smaller. 
The general coloration is grey ; the rump, upper tail-coverts and lower 
breast and abdomen whitish with grey small cross-bars ; wings and tail black. 
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