Genus— PLECTORHAMPHUS. 
Plectoramphus Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st 
ed., p. 16, April 1840. New name for 
Plectorhyncha Gould. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. Plectorhyncha lanceolata Gould. 
Also spelt— 
Plectorharnphus Strickland, Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI., p. 419, 1841. 
Plectrorhamphus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. I„ p, 161, 1869. 
Plectorhyncha Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., 
pt. iv., pi. (70), April 1st, 1838. Type (by 
monotypy). . .. .. .. .. P. lanceolata Gould. 
Also spelt— 
Plectrorhyncha Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 393, 1851. 
Plectorhynchus Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. I., p. 161, 1869. 
Not Plectorhinchus Lacepede. Hist. Nat. Poissons, Vol. III., p. 134, 1802. 
Medium sized “ Honey-eaters ” with short pointed bills, long wings, long 
tail, and short stout legs and feet. 
The bill is short, shorter than the head, straight dagger shaped, tip 
sharp yet shallowly notched posteriorly; the culmen semi-keeled, anteriorly 
laterally compressed with slight basal expansion ; the edges of the upper 
mandible nearly straight; the nostrils hi short narrow groove with a narrow 
linear slit and large operculum ; the under mandible deep, upper and lower 
at the base equal to the width at the base, the interramal space feathered 
about one-third the length of the bill, rictal and nasal bristles minute. 
The breast shows a lanceolate feathering. 
The wing is long with the first primary short, but a little more than half 
the length of the second, the third a little longer, the sixth a little shorter, 
the second subequal with the seventh, the third, fourth and fifth subequal 
and longest; secondaries medium. 
The tail is long and straight. 
The legs are short and stout; the tarsus anteriorly shows seven distinct 
separated scutes, posteriorly bilaminate; the toes short, liind-toe and claw 
stouter and longer than middle toe and claw; claws rounded, not long, 
anterior toes delicate, inner shorter than outer, middle toe a little longer. 
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