Genijs — C ONOPODERAS. 
Conopoderas Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., 
Vol. I., pt. ii.. Tab. A., 1828 (c/. Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2 and 3, p. 38, 1913). Type 
(by monotypy) ... ... ... ... ... T urdus longirostris Gmelin 
= Sitta caffra Sparrman. 
Tatar c Lesson, Trait e d’Orn., livr. 4, p. 317, 
Sept. 25, 1830. Type (by tautonymy) ... Tatare otaitensis Lesson 
= Sitta caffra Sparrman. 
Medium-sized Warblers with long stout bills, rounded wings, long rounded 
tail and long legs with small feet. 
The bill is as long as the head, rather stout, but laterally compressed, the 
tip slender, decurved, notched posteriorly, basally a little expanded and the 
sides flattened, the culmen ridge arched and semi-keeled ; the nasal groove 
is not pronounced, the linear nasal apertures being operculate and the frontal 
feathers project a little forward but do not obscure the nostrils. There are 
three long strong rictal bristles but no nasal bristles ; the lower mandible stout, 
as deep as upper, small interramal feathered space, about one-third length of 
mandible, gonys quite notably ascending. 
The wing rounded, the first primary minute, shorter than the primary- 
coverts, the third and fourth primaries equal and longest, the fifth a little shorter 
and the sixth still regularly decreasing and equal to the seventh, the rest rapidly 
decreasing, secondaries short. v 
The tail is composed of twelve feathers and rounded in shape, the coverts, 
both upper and under, about half the length of the tail-feathers. 
The legs are long and slender, but not twice the length of the culmen ; 
five scutes can be counted in front, but often they are nearly obsolete, 
posteriorly bilaminate ; the middle toe is longest, the outer longer than the 
inner, claws long and curved ; the inner toe and claw is about equal to the 
mid-toe without claw ; the hind-toe is strong and the claw is long, the hind- 
toe and claw being longer than the middle toe and claw. 
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