Genus— C R E A D I 0 N. 
Creadion Vieillot, Analyse nouv. Ornith., p, 36, 
April 14tli, 1816. Type (by subsequent 
designation) Lesson, Compl. des Oeuvres Bufifon, 
Vol. IX., p. 7, 1837 .. .. .. .. Gorvus 'pamdaxus Latham 
i.e., Daudin. 
Dyottornis Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., 
pt. 5, p. 116, Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by 
original designation) .. .. .. .. Gorvus paradoxus Daudin. 
Largest Honey-eaters with short stout bills, long cylindrical facial wattles, 
long wings, very long wedge-shaped tail and short stout legs and feet. 
The biU is short and stout, shorter than the head, straight, the culmen 
arched, the tip pointed, posteriorly notched, edges straight, laterally 
compressed, base a little expanded, the culmen semi-keeled; the nasal groove 
half the length of the biU, the linear nostrils long, the operculum notable, a 
few nasal bristles and weak rictal bristles ; the under mandible fairly stout, 
but the depth of the biU at the base not as much as the width ; the interramal 
space feathered, narrowly triangular and less than half the length of the bill, 
the gonys nearly straight. 
The wing long with the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh primaries 
subequal and longest, the fifth sometimes a little longer, and the third and 
seventh a little shorter; the second equal to the eighth primary and longer 
than the secondaries; the first primary short but more than half the length of 
the second. 
The tail is very long and strongly wedge shaped, the outside feathers 
being less than half the length of the central pair. 
The feet are very strong, the front of the tarsus scutate, but the scutes 
tend to fuse, the hind aspect bilaminate; the toes short and stout, the hind- 
toe very stout and longest, the inner toe less than the outer, and the inner 
toe and claw about equal to the iniddle toe alone, aU the claws curved and 
long, the hind-toe claw longest and stoutest. 
In connection with the preceding genus I have given the account of the 
proposal of Anthochcera and the introduction of Dyottornis w^hich I diagnosed: 
“ Differs from AnthochcBra Vigors and Horsfield, Type A. mellivora {=Merops 
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