Genus— MELIORNIS. 
Meliornis Gray, List Genera Birds, 1st ed., 
p. 15, April, 1840. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. Certhia novcehollandice Latham. 
Meliphaga Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. 
Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 312, Feb. 17th, 
1827 .. .. .. .. .. 
Not^ 
Meliphaga Lcwiii, 1808, see Doroihina. 
Smaller Honey-eaters with long, stout, compressed bills, long wings, long 
tail, thin legs and small feet. 
This genus is superficially in structure fike the preceding genus, but the 
bill is longer and stouter, though generally of same form. 
The ^ving has the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries subequal and 
longest, the second shorter then the seventh primary, but much longer than 
the secondaries, the first primary short but more than half the length of the 
second primary. 
Tile tail long and a little rounded in shape. 
The legs and feet much as in the preceding genus. 
The feathers of the throat have hair-like tips and the ear-coverts are 
developed, both of which features are quite missing in the previous genus. 
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