Genus— C ALOPTILOTIS. 
Calopttlotis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. 
XVIII., p. 414, Jan. 31st, 1912. Type 
(by monotypy) .. .. .. .. Ptilotis macleayana Ramsay. 
This group was also named, when I prepared my “ Reference List ” in 1912, 
as obviously not congeneric with the other Ptilotes. 
The bird belongs to the same series as the preceding genera, but has a 
comparatively shorter tail, long stout bill, longer than the head, stout legs 
and feet and a bare eye space. This last item is much developed in some 
New Guinea forms to which this Australian form is most closely allied. 
Note that this is another Cardwell form. 
The culmen is little arched, the under mandible stout, and the edges of 
the mandibles anteriorly serrate quite noticeably. 
The wing has the first primary short, but longer than half the second, 
which is equalled by the secondaries in length, the third, fourth, fifth and 
sixth primaries subequal and longest. 
The legs are stout, the tarsus booted anteriorly and bilaminate posteriorly; 
the feet are larger, the anterior toes delicate but long, the hind-toe and claw 
stouter. 
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