Genus — E YRAMYTIS. 
Eyramytis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 366, 
Jan. 31st, 1912. Type (by original designation) Amylis goyderi Gould. 
Small Grass-Wrens with extraordinary parrot-bills, short wings and long 
tail, long legs and stout feet. 
The bill is peculiar, shorter than the head, culmen very arched ; less 
lateral compression than usual in this group, but depth more than two-thirds 
the length ; the lower mandible very stout, nearly as deep as upper ; the 
tip sharp and spatulate ; the cutting edge of upper mandible slightly sinuate ; 
nasal groove small and placed high up in mandible, the linear nostrils nearly 
obscured by frontal feathering ; basal expansion little. 
The wing is very rounded ; the first primary about half the length of 
the third, then from the third to the eighth subequal and longest, not much 
exceeding the secondaries which are slightly longer than the second primary. 
The tail is long and wedge-shaped, the feathers ten in number. 
The legs are long and distinctly scutellate, six scutes being seen in front, 
the hind part bilaminate ; the feet are stout, the middle toe longest, the 
inner slightly shorter than the outer, but with claw less than the middle toe 
alone ; the hind-toe short and only equal to outer toe, but claw lodger. 
This extraordinary form is well characterised by its peculiar bill, and 
peculiarly enough has not been seen since the original pair were procured, which 
consequently remain in the British Museum (Natural History) Collection 
unique. 
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