Genus — PYRRHOL iEMUS. 
Pyrrhol^mus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, 
p. 173, July, 1841. Type (by monotypy) ... ... P. brunneus Gould. 
Small birds with medium slender bills, medium rounded wings, long tail and 
long slender legs and small feet. 
The bill is short, not as long as the head, the culmen slightly arched but 
nearly straight, the tip only slightly decurved and showing no posterior notch : 
laterally compressed with little basal expansion ; the nasal groove is about 
one-third the length of the bill, the linear apertures placed in a slanting, not 
horizontal position ; the nasal bristles are noteworthy and the rictal bristles 
about six in number and fairly strong : lower mandible slender, interramal 
space small and feathered. 
The wing is rounded, with the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries 
sub-equal and longest, the second less than the seventh, about equal to the eighth 
and secondaries : the first primary short, more than half the length of the second 
but about half the length of the third. 
The tail long and square, very little rounded. 
The legs are long and slender, booted in front and bilaminate behind : the 
feet small, the hind-toe and claw about equal 
claws short and round ; outer and inner toes 
equal to the middle toe without claw. 
This species is not of Sericornine affinity, 
allied to Hylacola . 
to the middle toe and claw, all 
sub-equal and with claw about 
but appears to be more closely 
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