Genus — CINCLORHAMPHUS. 
Cincloramphus Gould, Synops. Birds. Austr., 
pt. iv., App., p. 4. April 1, 1838. Type 
(by original designation) ... ... ... Megalurus cruralis 
Vigors & Horsfield. 
Also spelt — 
Gymlorhamphus Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 279, 1850 
Cintorhamphm "Wiegm” Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds B.M.', pt. i„ p. 205, 1869. 
Ptenoedus Cabanis, Mns. Hein, Vol. I., p. 
39 (after October 23), 1851. New name 
foi Cincloramphus Gould. Type . . . M. cruralis Vigors & Horsfield. 
Larger birds with long stout bills, long pointed wings with long tertials, long- 
wedge-shaped tail of pointed feathers and very long strong legs and strong feet. 
The sexes of very dissimilar size. 
The bill is about the same length as the head, in some males apparently 
a little longer, in some females a little less ; the culmen ridge angulate, the 
sides rapidly expanding basally, anteriorly compressed, the tip only a little 
decurved but showing the posterior notching ; a deep nasal groove is seen 
with linear nostrils strongly operculate ; the lower mandible similarly has an 
attenuate anterior portion and posterior divergent rami for about half its 
length, the interramal space feathered ; there are two rictal bristles but no 
nasal bristles. The wings are long, the primaries narrow, first primary very 
minute, the second longest, the third, fourth and fifth almost equal, the rest 
decreasing rapidly, the secondaries equal to the eighth, while the elongate 
tertials equal the four longest primaries in length. 
The tail is long, nearly as long as the long wings ; it is strongly wedge- 
shaped, the feathers narrow and pointed, the outer webs very small. The legs 
are long and stout, more than twice the length of the culmen, the tarsus showing 
six strong scutes anteriorly and bilaminate posteriorly ; the toes long, claws 
short, hind-toe stout with long strong curved claw ; hind-toe and claw equal 
to mid-toe and claw, the mid-toe alone as long as inner and outer toes, which 
are subequal with their claws. 
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