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Gentjs— XANTHOTIS. 
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Xanthotis Reichenbach, Handb. spec. Omith., 
Abth. II. (Handb. Meropinae I.), p. 139 
(leones Cont., No. IX., March Ist, 1862), 
1852. Type (by monotypy) .. .. X. flaviventris= 
Philedon chrysotis Lesson= 
Myzantha flaviventer Lesson. 
Large Honey-eaters for the Ptilotis group with very long, very stout biUs, long 
Avings, long tails and short stout legs and stout feet. 
The very long and stout bill, much longer than the head, strongly 
characterizes tliis genus from other Australian “ Ptilotis” but there are in 
New Guinea genera ■with still longer and stouter bills. 
The edges of the culmen are strongly serrate anteriorly, while owing to 
the lengthening of the bill the long nasal groove is only one-fourth the length 
of the bill. 
The wing has the first primary short, but more than half the length of the 
second, wliich is shorter than the seventh; the third, fourth and fifth 
primaries are subequal and longest, the sixth a little shorter; the secondaries 
are long. 
The tail is long and square. 
The legs are short and stout, the scutes on the* front of the tarsus with 
a tendency to fusion so as to suggest booting; the hind portion of the tarsus 
bilaminate ; the hind-toe stout and longest; the anterior toes weaker, the 
inner and outer subequal, the middle toe without claw shorter than inner toe 
and claw; claws sharply curved. 
This genus is a New Guinea one with a representative in Cape York 
peninsula. 
voL. xn. 
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