Genus —G RANTIELLA. 
Grantiella Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 19, June 17th, 1911. New name for 
Entomophila Gould. Type (by monotypy) .. Entomophila picta Gould. 
Entomophila Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., 
pi. (71), April 1st, 1838. Type (by monotypy) Entomophila picta Gould. 
Not— 
Entomophila Horafield, Zool. Researches, Java, 1824. 
Also spelt— 
Enihomophila Finsch, New Guinea, p. 164, 1865. 
Medium “ Honey-eaters ” with short stout rather broad bills, long wings, 
long square tail and short legs and small feet. 
The bill is shorter than the head, rather straight, the culmen a little 
arched, the tip sharp, posteriorly notched, anteriorly compressed, basally 
expanded more than usual in this group ; the nasal groove fairly long, more 
than one-third the length of the culmen, but the linear nasal opening short 
and the operculum small; nasal bristles few and short, lictal bristles obsolete ; 
triangular broad feathered interramal space almost half the length of the j 
rather stout under-mandible. 
The wing has the first primary minute, scarcely as long as the primary 
covert; the second long, equal to the fifth, and little exceeded by the third 
and fourth which are longest and subequal; the secondaries comparatively 
short. 
The tail is long and square. 
The legs are short, the tarsus obsoletely scutellate in front, bilaminate 
posteriorly ; the middle toe and claw longer than the hind-toe and claw which 
is stoutest, the outer toe longer than the inner, but all toes delicate and claws 
small. 
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