Family— A RTAMID/E. 
Genus — A RTAMUS. 
Artamus Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p. 41, 
April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy) ... “ Langraien Buff.” 
= Lanius leucoryn. 
= leucorhynchus Linne. 
Ocypterus Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, Vol. I., p. 339, 
“ 1817 ” = Dec. 7tli, 1816. Type (by monotypy) Laniusleucorhynchos Gm. 
= Linne. 
Also spelt — 
Oxipterus. id., ib., footnote. 
Not— 
Ocyptera "Latreille” Fabricius Syst. Antliat., p. 315, 1805. 
Leptopteryx Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Loud.), 
Vol. XIII., pt. I., p. 143, May, 1821. New 
name for Ocypterus Cuvier, as above, pre- 
occupied. 
Cataphania Gistel, Naturg. Thierr. Schulen, p. X. 
(pref. Easter, 1847), 1848. New name for 
“ Oxyptera Cuvier.” 
Large Wood-Swallows with long stout bills, long pointed wings, long tail 
and short legs with stout feet. \\ 
The bill is stout and triangular, the tip sharply pointed, the culmen 
regular arched and the sides regularly expanding to a wide gap, the edges of 
the upper mandible rather sinuate and terminally inflected, overlapping the 
under mandible ; the nostrils are placed midway between the culmen ridge 
and the edge of the mandible towards the base, but there is no defined nasal 
groove, simply an impression into which the feathers encroach and hide the 
nostrils, but the feathers at the base of the culmen ridge are not produced ; 
rictal bristles are few and comparatively weak, and the nasal bristles are 
not pronounced ; the under mandible is stout, nearly as deep as the upper, 
the gonys somewhat attenuated about half the length of the mandible, then 
the rami are widely divergent, forming a triangular interramal space which 
is fullv feathered. 
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