Genus—M A N 0 RIN A. 
Manobina Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., 
Vol. XIX., p. 236, May 30th, 1818. Type 
(by original designation) .. .. .. Manorina viridis= 
, Turdus melanophrys Latham. 
Also spelt— 
Manorhifut Wagler, Syst. Avium gon. Mauorhina, 1827. 
MaTiorrhina Roichenb., Hancib. spec. Ornith., Abth. II., p. Ill, 1852. 
Medium Honey-eaters with short, stout, straight bills, long udngs, long tail 
and short stout legs and feet. 
The bill is short and stout, less than the length of the head, strongly 
laterally compressed with little basal expansion, culmen weU arched, tip sharp 
and slightly downcurved, posteriorly notched, lateral edges straight; the 
under mandible is stout, the interi'amal space long and narrow and fully 
feathered, about half the length of the bill, the gonys slightly angulate; 
depth of the bill at the base more than the breadth at the base ; the nostrils 
appear as pervious Unear shts rather slanting in long indistinct nasal groove 
wliich extends about half the length of the biU, but the frontal feathering 
approaches nearly half-way on to the groove; there are no nasal bristles and 
the rictal bristles are few and small. 
The wing is long with the fourth and fifth primaries subequal and longest; 
the sixth short and the seventh shorter but longer than the third, while the 
second is scarcely longer than the secondaries ; the first primary is short 
but is more than half the length of the second, but less than one-third the 
length of the fourth primary. 
The tail is long and rounded, the feathers broad. 
The legs are short and stout, the front of the tarsus scuteUate, but the 
five scutes fusing so as sometimes to appear booted ; the hind aspect bilaminate ; 
the feet are strong, the hind-toe very stout and longest, the middle toe alone 
not longer than the inner toe and claw which equals the outer toe and claw; 
the claws short and curved. 
General coloration green, with a small bare eye-space. 
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