Genus— ANTHOCH^RA. 
Anthoch^ba Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 320, 
Feb. 17th, 1827. Type (by subsequent 
designation) Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., 
Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 116, 1912 .. .. A. mellivora 
= Mcrops chrysopteruLS Latham. 
Also spelt— 
Acanthochvera Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IX., p. 203, 1834, 
Anellobia Cabanis, Mus. Hein., Vol. I., p. 120, 
(after Oct. 23rd) 1851. Type (by sub¬ 
sequent designation) Gray, Cat. Gen. 
Subgen. Birds, p. 25, 1855, or monotypy A. mellivora and M. lunulata 
= Merops chrysopterus Latham. 
Melichoera Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Omith., 
Abth. II. (Handb. Meropinse), Vol. I., 
p. 130, (leones, Cont. No. IX., March 
1st, 1852). Type (by monotypy) .. M. mellivora and M. lunulata 
= Merops chrysopterus Latham. 
I HAVE given the history of this genus name under Coleia and here note 
the differential features. 
These are smaller birds Avith no wattle but coloration similar. 
The bin is similarly formed, but tliinner and proportionately longer. 
The Aving is similarly formed, but the second primary, though longer 
than the secondaries, is shoi'ter than the ninth primary. The tail is fan¬ 
shaped lik e that of Coleia, not wedge-shaped lilce that of Creadion. 
The legs are weaker and the claws shorter, the scutes on the front of the 
tarsus more pronounced, though the legs are less stout. 
The blrmderer who changed Anthochcera into Acanthochcera cannot be too 
strongly condemned, as Vigors and Horsfield in the original introduction of 
their name gave the etymology correctly, and tins should have been referred 
to before such a silly alteration was published. 
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