Genus — E PTHIANURA. 
Efthianura Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., 
pt. rv., App. p. 3, April 1st, 1838. 
Type (by original designation) ... Acanthiza albifrons Jardine and Selby. 
Also spelt — 
Ephthianura Gould, Proc. Zool. Soe. (Lond.), 1837, p. 148, Dec. 1838. 
Hephthcenura Reiehenbach, Vogel Neuhollands, p. 294, 1850. 
Ginura Brehm, Isis, 1845, heft. 5, 
col. 358, May. Type (by monotypy) Ginura torquata Brehm = 
Acanthiza albifrons Jardine and Selby. 
Also spelt — 
Cynura Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 298, 1850. 
Small Chat-like birds with short thin bills, long pointed wings, medium 
square tail and long slender legs and small feet. 
The bill is shorter than the head, compressed laterally, anteriorly a little 
expanded at the base, tip slightly decurved, lateral edges of mandible straight ; 
the nasal apertures linear, strongly operculate ; no nasal or rictal bristles ; the 
interramal space about half the length of the lower mandible and feathered. 
The wing is pointed, the first primary very small and thin, less than one- 
third the length of the longest primaries ; these are the third, fourth and fifth 
which are subequal, while the second, which is equalled by the sixth, is only a 
veiy little shorter, the secondaries are long, equalling the ninth primary, which 
is noticeably shorter than the longest. 
The tail is of medium length, a little more than half the length of the 
wing and regularly square in shape ; the tad-coverts are long, more than half 
the length of the tail. 
The legs are long and slender, the tarsus being nearly twice as long as the 
bill ; the front is plainly scuted but the back is bilaminate ; the feet are small 
and delicate, claws long and little curved ; the mid-toe equal to the inner toe 
with claw which equals the outer ; hind-toe stronger and with longer claw 
only a little shorter than mid-toe and claw. 
In the Emu, Vol. XII., p. 204, et seq. 1913, in connection with the species 
Epthianura lovensis Ashby, I gave some notes with regard to the coloration 
and structure of the species previously associated under the genus name 
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