Genus — OREOCINCL A. 
Oreocincla Gould, Synops Birds Austr., pt. iv., 
App. p. 3, April 1st, 1838. Type (by original 
designation and monotypy ) ... ... ... Turdus varius Horsfield 
Also spelt — ■ 
Oreocichia Sharpe, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds B.M., Vol. IV., p. 136, 1903. 
Large Thrushes with long stout bills, long wings, long square tail and stout 
legs and feet. 
The bill is about the length of the head, the sides compressed, a little 
expanded basally, the culmen arched, ridge-curved, tip decurved and definitely 
posteriorly notched ; the nasal apertures are linear slits in a deep groove, 
the frontal feathers encroaching into the groove but not hiding the nostrils ; 
the lower mandible stout, the interramal space feathered and less than half 
the length of the mandible, the gonys a little advancing upward ; the nasal 
bristles many and noticeable, rictals few and obsolete. 
The wing is long with the first primary small and narrow, about one-fourth 
the length of the third which, with the fourth and fifth, which are subequal, 
are longest, the second is a little shorter than these and equal to the sixth, 
the seventh, etc., regularly decreasing, and all exceeding the secondaries. 
The tail is long and square composed of twelve broad feathers. 
The legs are short and stout, the tarsus booted in front and bilaminate 
behind, the toes slender, claws short and curved ; the middle toe without 
claw is longer than the inner and outer with claw, which are subequal ; the 
hind-toe stouter and as long as the inner toe, the hind-claw longer so that 
the hind-toe and claw is almost equal to the mid-toe and claw. 
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