G-bnus — P0MATOS TOMUS . 
Pomatqstomus Cabanis, Mus. Hein, Vol. I., p. 83 
(after Oct. 23rd), 1851. Type (by subsequent 
designation) Gray 1855 (before Sept.), p. 45 Pomatorhinus temporalis 
Vigors and Horsfielcl. 
Large “ Pomatorhine ” birds with long curved bills, long rounded wings, 
long rounded tails of broad feathers and comparatively short stout legs and 
feet. 
The bill is about equal to the head, curved, the culmen arched but the 
tip sharp, depth at base about one-third the length; the culmen ridge is 
slightly rounded, the sides strongly laterally compressed, the edges of the 
mandible arched, agreeing with the curving of the culmen ; the nostrils appear 
as linear openings near the base of the bill, a small operculum being observed, 
but no nasal groove obvious ; the rami of the lower mandible are very short, 
less than one-third the length of the bill and the gonys is compressed 
and decurved as the upper mandible. 
The wing is long and rounded, the first primary short but a little more 
than half the length of the third ; the second is a little shorter than the seventh, 
and equals the eighth, which however exceeds the secondaries ; the third, 
fourth, fifth and sixth primaries are subequal and longest. 
The tail is long, composed of broad feathers and rounded in shape, just 
about equal to the length of the wing. \' 
The feet are stout, the legs short and strong ; the tarsus is strongly 
scutate in front, showing five scutes but bilaminate posteriorly ; a little longer 
than the length of the culmen ; the middle toe is longest without the claw, 
longer than the inner and outer toes with claw, the outer longer than the 
inner, the claws short and sharply curved ; the hind-toe long and stout with 
long claw almost equal to the middle toe and claw. 
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