Genus— ORE OSCOPUS. 
Oreoscopus North, Agric. Gazette, N.S.W., 
Vol. XVI., pt. 3, p. 247, Mcli. 2, 1905. Type 
(by monotypy) ... Sericornis gutturalis De Vis. 
Larger birds with very long straight bills, rounded wings, long slightly rounded 
tail, short legs and strong feet. 
The bill is very long and slender, longer than the head, the culmen straight, 
the tip steeply decurved with a posterior notch, laterally compressed, culmen 
ridge keeled ; the nasal groove long, extending nearly half the length of the 
bill, but the nasal apertures small and linear and placed posteriorly in the groove 
and almost hidden by feathers ; the interramal space narrow, but nearly half 
the length of the under mandible which is slender ; rictal bristles very small 
and obscure, and no nasal bristles apparent. 
The wing has the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries equal and longest, 
the second and seventh subequal and little shorter, the secondaries equal to the 
second primary and longer than the tenth primary ; the first primary about 
half the length of the third. 
The tail is long and slightly rounded in shape. 
The legs are comparatively short, the tarsus about half the length of the 
tail and about one-third the length of the wing ; the front of the tarsus is 
scutellate, the scutes tending to fusion and the hind part bilaminate ; the hind 
toe is stronger and the claw stronger than the middle toe and claw but shorter ; 
the inner and outer toes and claws are subequal and about equal to the middle 
toe alone. 
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