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Genus MICROPHILEMON. 
Microphilemon Mathews, Austral 
Avian Record, Vol. I., pt. 5, p. 117, 
Dec. 24th, 1912. Type (by 
original designation) .. ,. Buphaga orientalis Latham— 
TropidorhyTichus citreogularis Grould. 
At the introduction of this genus I wrote: “Differs from Philemon in 
its shorter, weaker bill and weaker legs and feet, and shorter wings and tail.” 
This little form is almost a mimic of tine Philemon^ with a bill long 
and curved, longer than the head, the culmen only semi-keeled and bearing 
no protuberance whatever. The head is feathered with only a bare eye space 
and no elongation of the breast feathers. 
The wing has the first primary short but more than half the length of 
the second, which is longer than the eighth and the primaries; the third, fourth, 
fifth and sixth primaries subequal and longest, the seventh very fittle shorter. 
The tail is long and square as usual, and the legs and feet are of siinilar 
structure to those of the preceding, but are much more dehcately’formed. 
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