Genus— MELLORIA. 
Melloria Mathews, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 114, Dec. 24th, 1912. 
Type (by original designation) . . . . Cracticus spaldingi Ramsay. 
I diagnosed this genus as : “ Differs from Cracticus in its stouter longer bill 
and longer wing and tail and stouter feet.” 
The bill is formed like that of the preceding genus, but has a very long 
curved-over tip with a posterior notch into which the tip of the lower mandible 
fits ; the feathering does not project into the nasal impression which is scarcely 
marked, while the nostrils are minute linear slits basally placed half way 
between the eulmen ridge and the lateral edge of the mandible ; small trian- 
gular interramal feathered space about one-third the length of the mandible ; 
no nasal bristles but half a dozen rictal bristles, four of them strong ; the 
eulmen is flattened and rounded and wider at the base than deep. 
The wing has the fourth, fifth and sixth primaries subequal and longest, 
the third and seventh subequal and a little shorter, the second equal to the 
ninth primary but longer than the secondaries : the first primary is short, 
less than half the length of the third, but more than half the length of the 
second. 
The tail is long and a little rounded, the twelve feathers rather broad. 
The legs are long and the tarsus is practically booted, the scutes having 
fused and scarcely recognisable in front, the hind portion bilaminate ; the 
toes are long, the claws very long and sharp ; the hind- toe and claw is shorter 
than the middle toe and claw, while the inner toe and claw is almost equal 
to the middle toe alone, the outer longer than the inner and subequal with 
the middle one, but the outer claw less than the middle claw. 
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