Genus— PH YLIDONYRIS. 
Phylidonyris Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., livr. 4, 
p. 298, Sept. 26th, 1830. Type (by sub¬ 
sequent designation) Gray, Cat. Gen. Sub¬ 
gen. Birds, p. 24, 1855 .. .. .. Certhia ausiralasiana= 
Certkia pyrrhoptera Latham. 
/VJfo spolt— 
Philedonyris Agassiz, Index Univ., l2mo ed., p. 832, 1848. 
Melisympotes Reichenbach, Handb. spec. 
Omith. Abth., II. (Handb. Meropinse), Vol. 
I., p. 121, 1852. Type (by monotypy) .. Certhia australasiana Shaw. 
Lichmera Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., 
p. 493, 1865 . 
Not— 
Lichmera Cabanis, 1851, which = Stigmaiops. 
Smaller Honey-eaters with long, thin, curved bills, long wings, long tail and 
short thill legs and small feet. 
The bin is long, thin and curved, longer than the head, and laterally much 
compressed and basal expansion scarcely noticeable, culmen semi-keeled, 
edges of mandibles minutely serrated anteriorly; nasal groove very long, 
nearly half the length of the culmen; linear nostrils strongly operculate; 
nasal and rictal bristles few and small; lower mandible with very small 
interramal space, less than one-fifth the length of the mandible; gonys very 
long with no appreciable angulation. 
The wing is long with the fourth and fifth primaries subequal and longest, 
the third and sixth subequal and little shorter, the second shorter and equalled 
by the long secondaries, the first short and about equal to half the second 
only. 
The tail is long and square. 
The legs are short and thin, the anterior scuteUate, but scutes fused so 
as superficially to appear booted, posteriorly bilaminate; feet delicate, mid¬ 
toe longest, hind-toe a little stouter; imier and outer toes subequal, longer 
wth claw than middle toe without claw; claws sharp. 
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