Genus— ORE QIC A. 
Oreoica Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., 
App., p. 4, April 1st, 1838. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. .. .. Falcunculus gutturalis 
Vigors and Horsfield. 
Also spelt— 
Oreica Gould, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 190, note, 1843, 
Orocca Blyth, Ibis, 1807, p. 14, note. 
Larger crested Falculculine (?) birds with long laterally compressed bills, 
long wings, long square tail, and long legs with small feet. 
There is much resemblance in structure between this and the preceding 
form and they are consequently classed together, but it is questionable whether 
they are very nearly related. 
The bill is long, nearly as long as the head, laterally compressed, the 
culmen arched, the tip slightly hooked with a faint posterior notch and the 
edges succeeding straight; culmen keeled ; under mandible nearly as strong 
as the upper, but not so deep; depth of both mandibles at base about equal 
to breadth; interramal space triangular, feathered nearly half the length of 
the mandible, the gonys a little flattened, the anteriorly a little upcurved; 
the nostrils appear as slanting ovals placed in the anterior part of a groove 
into which a few weak nasal bristles project but do not hide the nostrils ; 
a few weak rictal bristles are present. 
The wing is rounded with the secondaries long, equal to the second primary 
which is shorter than the seventh primary, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth 
primaries subequal and longest, sometimes the third and fourth a shade the 
longest; the first short, about two-thirds the length of the second. The tail 
long and square. 
The legs are longish and boldly scuted with five scutes in front, posteriorly 
bilaminate, the outer side pseudo-scutellate. The feet are similar to those of 
the preceding genus but more delicate ; the hind-toe and claw about equal 
to the middle toe and claw, the hind-claw longest; the front toes short, the 
outer longer than the inner and nearly equal to the middle toe, which is 
scarcely excelled by the inner toe and claw. 
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