Genus — C INCLOSOMA. 
Cinclosoma Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 219, 
February 17th, 1827. Type (by 
monotypy) ... ... ... ... Turclus punctatus Latham = Shaw. 
Large “ Cinclosomatine ” birds with medium thinnish bills, short rounded 
wings, long wedge tail of broad feathers and stout legs with small feet. 
The bill is more than half the length of the head, laterally compressed, 
the culmen semi-keeled, basally a little expanded, tip notched and little 
decurved ; nostrils as linear slits, operculate, placed in a groove which extends 
about one-third the length of the bill, and is open, there being no projecting 
frontal feathering ; the under mandible is stout, the rami little divergent, the 
interramal space small and feathered; rictal bristles small and insignificant. 
The wing very rounded, the wing -feathers narrow ; the first primary short 
a little longer than half the third, which the second nearly equals ; the third, 
fourth and fifth are subequal and longest, the sixth a little shorter and equal 
to the second, the seventh shorter still but longer than the secondaries which 
equal the first primary in length. 
The tail-feathers are twelve in number, and broad, forming a large rounded 
wedge, the tail-coverts, upper and under, long, equalling the outer tail-feather 
in length. The feet are stout and fairly long with the outer face of the tarsus 
bearing six pronounced broad scutes, the hinder aspect bilaminate, a few scales 
at the tibial joint and heel ; the toes are of medium length, thin, regularly 
scutellate, the middle toe longest, the outer and inner shorter and equal with 
their claws, about equal to the middle toe without claw ; the claws are short, 
sharp and curved ; the hind-toe is equal to the inner toe but the claw is 
longer than that of the latter but still short. 
I am using the family name Cinclosomatidce as obviously “ TimaUidce ” 
is so meaningless and Orthonycidce can scarcely with equity include these birds. 
However, this is merely a temporary title to use as a special Australian waste- 
paper basket until the affinities of each species are worked out. Thus in the 
present work I cannot easily rearrange the species and continue the progress 
satisfactorily, so am compelled to initiate small changes only and suggest the 
larger ones for rectification at a later opportunity. Thus, in the series here 
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