Genus— ENT OMYZON. 
Entomyzon Swainson, Zool. Journ., Vol. I., 
pt. 4, p. 480, Jan. 1825. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. .. Blue-faced Grakle of Latham 
= Gracula cyanotis Latham. 
Also spelt— 
Entomiza Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 328, 1837. 
Entomyza Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1840, p. 169. 
Entomizon Cabanis, Mus. Heine, Vol. I., p. 121, 1851. 
Large Melithreptine birds with long stout bills, large bare eye-space, long 
wings, long tail and stout legs and feet. 
The bill is long, laterally compressed with little basal expansion; culmen 
arched, tip depressed, posteriorly notched, edges straight; culmen semi- 
keeled, nasal groove long and shallow, nearly half the length of the bill, the 
nasal apertures small ovals anteriorly placed in groove ; the frontal feathering 
approaches nearly half-way on to the groove and there are no nasal nor rictal 
bristles; the interramal space small, elongate, feathered, the gonys not 
markedly angulate, straight; lower mandible stout; depth of both mandibles 
at base of bill more than breadth at same place. 
The wing is long, with the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries sub¬ 
equal and longest, the third and sixth a little shorter, the second less than 
the seventh but much longer than the secondary, the first primary less than 
half the length of the second. 
The tail is long and rounded. 
The legs are short and stout, the front of the tarsus strongly scutellate, 
the back bilaminate ; the feet are strong, the hind-toe is long and stout, the 
hind-claw very stout, the hind-toe and claw much longer than the middle 
too and claw, the inner and outer toes subequal, the inner toe and claw 
equalled by the middle toe alone. 
This genus is purely an exaggerated Melithreptas. 
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