Genus— GR ALLIN A. 
Grallina Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornitli., p. 42, 
April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy).. G. melanoleuca 
— Corpus cyanoleucus Latham. 
Also spelt — 
Gallina, id., ib., p. 68. 
Tanypus Oppel, Denkschr. Ak. Wissen. Munch. 
1811-12, p. 159, 1812. Type (by monotypy) Tanypus australis Oppel — 
= Corpus ' cyanoleucus Latham. 
Not Tanypus Meigen, Mag. fur Inscktk. (Illiger), Vol. II., p. 261, 1803. 
Golobathris Gloger, Hand.- n. Hilfsb., pt. iv., p. 304, 1841 (early). 
New name for Grallina Vieillot. 
Grallipes Sundevall, Meth. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., pt. n., p. 155, June, 1873. 
New name for Grallina Vieillot. 
Medium sized Passerine birds with short bill, long wings, long square tail and 
long stout legs and stout feet. 
The bill is short and straight, not as long as the head, which is small for 
the size of the bird ; the culmen slightly curved, tip very little decurved and 
with a slight posterior notch ; the bill is slender, laterally compressed with 
little basal expansion ; the nostrils are large ovals placed near the base of 
the mandible, not hidden by feathers, which, however, approach the nasal 
orifices ; the nasal bristles are few and obsolete and the rictal, about half a 
dozen in number, not very noticeable ; the lower mandible of medium depth, 
with the interramal space more than one-third the length of the mandible. 
The wings are very long with the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries forming 
the tip of the wings, the fourth and fifth subequal and slightly the longest ; 
the second a little shorter and equal to the eighth, but longer than the second- 
aries ; the first primary short, about half the length of the second. The 
tail very long and square. 
The legs are very long and strong, the front portion of the tarsus scutelate 
with seven plain scutes ; the hinder-portion bilaminate ; the toes are short 
and stout, the claws small, not much curved, the hind-claw longest ; the middle 
toe and claw longest, the inner and outer toes subequal and inner toe and claw 
scarcely longer than the middle toe alone ; the hind-toe is about equal to the 
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