Genus — CONIGRA VE A. 
Conigravea Mathews, Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 
59, Get. 23rd, 1913. Type 
(by original designation) . . Cotluricincla parvula conirjravi Mathews. 
I wrote : “ Differs from Coley a Mathews in its longer bill, longer wing and 
tail and different wing-formation ; the third primary longest and the second 
primary equal to the sixth.” 
The bill is as long as the head, the culmen laterally compressed, the tip 
sharply hooked and decurved with a posterior notch, the culmen ridge semi- 
keeled and nearly straight ; the nostrils hidden by appressed bristles and 
the rictal bristles strong and noticeable ; the lower mandible strong, the 
interramal space short and feathered, about one-third the length of the 
mandible, the gonys a little upeurved. 
The wing has the first primary short, about half the length of the second, 
which is equal to the sixth, and these are a little shorter than the third, 
fourth and fifth which are sub equal, the third sometimes longest ; the 
secondaries equal the ninth, and exceed the first primary in length. 
The legs are of medium length, scutellate in front with seven scutes 
and bilaminate posteriorly ; the toes are long and slender, the outer toe 
longer that the inner toe, the inner toe and claw being equal to the middle 
toe alone ; the hind-toe stout, about equal to the outer toe, but with claw 
equal to the middle toe and claw as the hind-claw is longest. 
I have divided the Australian “ Colluricinda ” into five groups, viz., 
Colluricinda, Alphacincla, Conigravea , Caleya and Bowyerici, and whatever the 
value these are distinct entities. It may be noted that for the last sixty to 
eighty years two groups were allowed by almost every ornithologist, one Colluri- 
cincla, the other named Myiolestes or Pinarolestes, and accepted even by 
lumpers. The present form, Conigravea, was practically unknown so that 
its reference to Colluricinda by Gould and its transference to Pinarolestes 
by Sharp indicate its peculiarities. The last named group, Bowyeria , is quite 
a recent discovery and as the succeeding notes show puzzled even Hartert 
as to its location. 
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