Genus— GLICIPHILA. 
Gliciphila Swain son, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., 
p. 326, July 1st, 1837. Type (by monotypy) G. fulvifrons Swainson = 
Certhia melunops Latham. 
Also spelt— 
Qlyciphifo Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. IV., p. 6, 1S38. 
Glycyphila Cabanis, Mus. Heine., Vol. I., p. 117, 1851. 
Small “ Honey-eaters ” with long, stout, curved bills, long wings, long square 
tail and rather long and slender legs and feet. 
The bill is longer than the head, curved, tip with a posterior notch and 
then the edge very minutely serrate; culrnen expanded basally and keeled, 
anteriorly laterally compressed but rounded; nasal groove long, more than 
one-third the length of the culrnen, the nostrils linear, with a strong operculum ; 
frontal feathering advancing a little and nasal bristles weak but present, though 
rictal bristles are scarcely discernible ; interramal spa.ce about one-third the 
length of the curved under-mandible and feathered. 
The wing has the first primary short, less than half the length of the second, 
and less than one-third the length of the third ; the second is equal to the 
seventh, but much longer than the long secondaries, the third, fourth, fifth 
and sixth primaries subequal and longest. 
The tail is long and square. 
The legs are rather long and slender, the front portion of the tarsus 
obscurely scutellate, generally appearing as if booted in the adult, though 
scutes clearly seen in immature birds; bilaminate posteriorly; the toes 
slender and comparatively long; the outer toe longer than the inner, 
the middle toe and claw longer than the hind-toe and claw, which however is 
much stouter; the anterior toes are scarcely joined basally. 
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