Genus —BROAD BE NT I A. 
Broadbentia Mathews, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 60., Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Type (by original designation) .. .. Ptilotis flava addenda Mathews. 
I diagnosed this group thus : “ Differs from Ptilotula Mathews in its much 
longer bill, stronger feet and longer wing, though as short a tail; from 
Nesoptilotis Mathews in its shorter tail, though the wing is of the same 
length, and its much longer bill.” 
The bill is long and stout, longer than the head, nearly straight, the culmen 
gently arched, the nasal groove long, though less than half the length of the 
bih. 
The wing has the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries subequal and 
longest, the second primary about equal to the seventh, the first short primary 
about half the length of the second. 
The legs are short and stout, the front of the tarsus scutellate, the hind 
view bilaminate ; the feet are small and stout, the hind-toe stout but a little 
shorter than the middle toe; the inner and outer toes subequal, with claws 
a little longer than middle toe alone ; claws sharp. 
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