Genus— MORGANORNIS. 
Morganornis Mathews, Austral Ay. Record, 
Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 112, Dec. 24, 1912. Type 
(by original designation) ... ... ... Pomatorhinus superciliosus 
Vigors and Horsfield. 
When I separated this genus I wrote : “ Differs from Pomatostomus in its 
proportionately longer bill though shorter wing and weaker feet ; in the wing 
the first and second primaries are proportionately shorter than in that genus.” 
The birds of this genus are smaller with longer, more slender bills, more 
steeply curved and still more compressed laterally. 
The wings are still more rounded, the third to the ninth primaries sub- 
equal and longest and the secondaries longer than the second primary. 
They show a peculiar relationship to the former, as they are more restricted 
to the south yet do not enter Tasmania, while one species is restricted to the 
adjoining inland parts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia, but does not appear to extend across to the west. The other is 
quite southern, ranging plenteously from east to west, but still not exactly 
a coastal bird. 
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