Genus— STOMIOPERA. 
Stomiopera Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Omith., Abth. II. 
(Handb. Meropinae), Vol. I., p. 109 (leones Cont., 
No. IX., March 1st, 1852). Type (by subsequent 
designation, Gray, 1855, p. 24) .. .. .. P. unicolor Gould. 
Also spelt— 
Stomiopara Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. XXXVIII., p. 263, 1854. 
Sfomioptera Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 24, 1855. 
Large Honey-Eaters with long stout bills, long wings, long tails and medium 
legs and feet. 
The bill is long and stout, longer than the head, nearly straight, the 
culmen gently arched and generally like that of Microptilotis, but much larger 
and heavier ; there is a swollen fleshy gape like in that genus ; the interramal 
space in the lower mandible is long, nearly half the length of the under 
mandible; while though the nasal groove is long, it is less than half the 
length of the culmen, the linear nostrils being strongly operculate. 
The wing has the first primary short, about half the length of the second, 
which is shorter than the ninth primary and the secondaries ; the third, fourth, 
fifth, sixth and seventh primaries are subequal and longest, the seventh 
sometimes a little shorter. 
The tail is long and square. 
The legs are comparatively long, the front aspect scutellate, but the 
scutes tend to fusion and show an indistinct booting; the hind part, as usual 
in the family, bilaminate ; the toes are medium, the inner and outer toes subequal 
in length, the middle toe longer but without claw not longer than inner toe 
with claw ; the hind-toe and claw a little stouter and longer than the middle 
toe and claw. 
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