Genus— MELITH RE PTUS. 
Melithreptus Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Omith., p. 46, 
April 14th, 1816. Type (by monotypy) .. “ Heorotaire fuscalbin ” 
= Certhia lunata Vieillot. 
Also spelt— 
Mellithreptus Lesson, Traite d’Om. 
Melitreptus Vieillot, Tabl. Ency. Method., Vol. II., p. 600, 1822. 
Meliihreptcs Gray, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Yol. XI., p. 191, 1843. 
Hcematops Gould, Synop3. Birds Austr., pt. i., 
pi. (17), Jan. 1st, 1837. Tjqn (by subsequent 
designation): Bonaparte Comptes Rend us 
Acad. Sci., Paris, Vol. XXXVIII., p. 264, 
1854 .. .. .. .. .. .. Certhia lunulata Shaw, 
i.e., Vieillot. 
Gymnophrys Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 327, July 1st, 1837. Type (by monotypy) G. torquatus= 
Certhia lunata Vieillot. 
Eidopsarus Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 327, July 1st, 1837. Type (by monotypy) E. bicinctus= 
H. validirostris Gould. 
Also spelt— 
Idopsarus Agassiz, Index Universalis, p. 194, 1846; p. 389, 1848. 
Eidopsaris Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 344, Dec. 1837. 
Eudopsarw Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 395, 1850. 
Small Honey-eaters with short comparatively straight bills, fairly long wings, 
long square tail and small legs and feet. The bill is short and straight, less 
than or just equal to the length of the head, the culmen slightly arched, com¬ 
pressed laterally with slight basal expansion, and keeling, tip sharp and pointed, 
not decurved; there are no nasal bristles and rictals obsolete. The nasal 
groove is comparatively long, ahnost a third the length of the bill, the nostrils 
linear slits with prominent operculum; the edges of upper mandible straight 
with slight curvature, as the lower mandible is nearly straight with long in ter¬ 
minal space fully feathered more than one-third the length of the bill. There 
is a coloured bare skin round the eye. 
The wing is long with pointed tip consisting cf the third, fourth, fifth 
and sixth primaries, the third equal to the sixth, the fourth and fifth slig h tly 
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