Genus — D RYMODES. 
Drymodes Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, 
p. 170, July 1841. Type (by monotypy) ... D. brunneopygia Gould. 
Also spelt — 
Drymcedus Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Avium Disp. Tent., p. 9, 1872. 
Drymos Giebel, Thes. Ornith., Vol. II., p. 60, 1875. 
Drymodus Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Gen., Yol. VII., p. 965, 1875. 
Drymaoedus Salvadori, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), p. 97, 1878. 
Hylodes “Gould,” Gray, List Genera Birds, 2nd 
ed., p. 30, Sept. 1841. Type (by original 
designation) ... ... ... ... ... u H.” brunneopygia Gould. 
(? Error for Drymodes.) 
Not — 
Hylodes Fitzinger, Neue Classif. Rept., pp. 38, 64, 1826. 
Medium “ Cinclosomatine ” birds with medium bills, rounded wings, very long 
rounded tail and very long legs and small feet. 
The bill is of medium length, compressed laterally, a little basally expanded, 
the tip a little decurved and notched ; the nostrils are linear, placed in a shallow 
nasal groove, operculate and a few frontal bristles encroach and partly obscure 
them ; there are a few small rictal bristles. 
The wing is rounded ; the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh primaries longest 
and little exceeding the third and eighth which are subequal, the ninth and 
tenth a little shorter and equalled by the secondaries which exceed the second 
in length while the first primary is short and only about half the third. A 
The tail is very long and rounded, composed of twelve broad feathers ; 
the tail-coverts, both upper and under, are comparatively short. 
The legs are very long and rather stout, the tarsus booted in front and bila- 
minate behind ; the toes very small and slender, the outer and inner subequal 
and with the claw less than the middle toe without claw, which is a little longer 
than those of the other anterior toes ; the hind-toe is a little longer than the 
inner toe but its claw is about twice as long as the claw of the inner toe ; all the 
claws are comparatively small. 
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