Genus —COLEI A. 
CoLEiA Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., 
p. 116, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. .. Merops carunculatm Latham. 
When I proposed this genus I wrote: “ Differs from Anthochcerd in its longer 
bill and short rounded wattles, and from Dyottornis in its shoiler wing and 
tail and different shaped wattles, though the bill is as powerful,” explaining: 
“ Anthochoera was introduced by Vigors and Horsfield m the Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 320, 1826, and three species were attached, A. carunculata, 
A. mellivora and A. phrygia. In a footnote they added A. lemnii and noted 
that Merops novcezealandice may be referred to this group. No type was 
designated, and A. carunculata Latham has been generally accepted as type. 
But A, carunculata Vigors and Horsfield was not M. carunculata Latham as they 
supposed, but Corvus paradoxus Daudin, which they included in the synonymy. 
Their A. lewinii, only added in the footnote, is the true M. carunculatus Latham. 
Consequently, the acceptance of A, carunculata {nec Latham) as type would 
involve the use of Anthochcera for Corvus paradoxus Daudin. But Vigors and 
Horsfield carefully diagnosed their genus, and this diagnosis, upon which the 
genus must stand, forbids such action. The words ‘ Cauda elongata, 
rotundata, vix gradata ’ are not apphcable to Daudin’s species, but are quite 
correct when A. mellivora (the second species) is examined. I therefore designate 
this as type of Anthochoera Vigors and Horsfield, and have generically named 
the other species as above. Thus Anthochcera Vigors and Horsfield, 1826, 
will replace Anellobia Cabanis, 1851, and Dyottornis wiU replace Anthochcera 
Auct., not Vigors and Horsfield.” 
Eurther comphcations as to the last mentioned will be discussed under 
the next genus. 
As the next genus was the first to be established, I have given a detailed 
account of its structure and here note the differential characters of the present 
form. 
Structurally the birds agree, but in place of the long pendant facial wattle 
of cylindrical shape there is only a small rounded one. The birds are slightly 
smaller but the coloration is similar. The wing has the tliird primary about 
equal to the seventh, but these are shorter than the fom-th, fifth, and sixth, 
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