Genus — GYMNORHINA. 
Gymnorhina Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., 
p. 37 (before Apl.), 1840. Type (by original 
designation) . . . . . . . . . . Coracias tibicen Latham. 
Also spelt — 
Gymnorrhina Reichenbach, Av. Sysfc. Nat., 1S50; Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 62, 1855. 
Large Craeticine birds with long straight bills, long wings, long tail and long 
strong legs and feet. 
The bill is long and stout, longer than the head, the culmen flattened and 
rounded, tip not very sharp, scarcely projecting, posteriorly slightly notched, 
4he lateral edges straight, depth of bill at the base about equal to the width, 
basal feathering projecting on each, side tow'ards the nostrils which appear as 
linear apertures without a groove but in impressed space and quite open ; no 
particular nasal bristles but four strong rictal bristles ; the under mandible 
is stout, nearly as deep as the upper ; the interramal space is less than half 
the length of the mandible and fully feathered. 
The wing has the first primary short, about half the length of the second 
and equal to the tenth primary and the secondaries ; the second primary is 
equal to the sixth, the third, fourth and fifth subequal, the third generally 
the longest. 
The tail is long and square, composed of twelve feathers. 
The legs are long and stout, the tarsus scutellate, the front having ten 
regular scutes, posteriorly bilaminate ; the feet are stout, the claws sharp 
and curved ; the inner and outer toes are subequal, the middle toe longest ; 
the hind-toe longer and stouter than the inner toe, and hind-toe and claw longer 
than the middle toe and claw as the hind-claw is much longer. 
Key to the Species. 
Back all white 
Back with black saddle 
(Back mottled black and white $ 
G. hypoleuca. 
G. tibicen. 
G. dorsalis.) 
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