Genus — LEACH ENA. 
Leachena Mathews, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, April 7th, 1916. 
Type (by original designation) . . . Epthianura crocea 
Castelnau and Ramsay. 
When I wrote about the Epthianurce in 1913 I included this species with 
Aurepthianura, as the coloration was similar, but later I noted that very different 
habits were recorded, and again looked at the birds with better knowledge and 
at once proposed the above genus, as the observed differences were more than 
in connection with the other genera. 
The bill is similarly formed but stouter ; the wing is quite of a different 
style, the first primary being short but nearly half the length of the second, 
which is less than the third ; the seventh is about equal to the second, while 
the third, fourth, fifth and sixth are subequal and longest ; the secondaries 
are comparatively long, being equal to the ninth primary. The tail is long 
and a little rounded, the tail-coverts not quite reaching to half the length the 
tail-feathers. The tarsus is rather strongly scutellate in front and the claws 
are long and little curved. 
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