Genus—PAR APT IL OTIS. 
Paraptilotis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 414, Jan. 31st, 1912. Type (by monotypy) Ptilotis fusca Gould, i.e., 
Meliphaga fusca Gould. 
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When I prepared my “Reference List” in 1912 I was employing huge unnatural 
genera, but when I examined the extraordinary accumulation of species classed 
as Ptilotis, though I allowed the usage, I marked my disapproval of such a 
grouping by introducing a few new generic terms, of which the present is one. 
The birds are medium Honey-eaters with short stout bills, long wings, 
long tails, and slender legs and very small feet. 
The bill is short and stout, shorter than the head, more triangular than 
in the preceding genera and less compressed; the linear nostrils almost half 
the length of the bill; the under mandible stout, the gonys marked but short, 
the interramal space triangular, narrow and feathered. 
The first primary is short and narrow, less than half the length of the 
second, which is much longer than the secondaries ; the third, fourth and 
fifth primaries subequal and longest. 
The legs are slender, scutes being obscurely seen on the front of the tarsus, 
the feet are small, the hind-toe and claw longer than the middle toe and claw. 
Key to the Species. 
Lores black . 
Lores not black. 
P. chrysops 
P. fusca 
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