Genus—B U D Y T E S. 
Budytes Cuvier, Le Regne Animal, Vol. I., 
p. 371, 1817 = Dec. 1816. Type (by mono- 
typy) • • • • • • • • • • • • Motacilla flava Lin tip, , 
Also spelt— 
Bodytea Jarocki, Zoologiia, Vol. II., p. 115, 1821. 
Pecula C. T. Wood, Analyst, Vol. IV., No. xvi., 
July 1836, pp. 299-300. Type (by monotypy) Budytes neglectus Gould. 
Small birds of slender build, longish thin biU, long wings, long tail, and long 
slender legs with long toes, hind-toe lengthened. 
The bill is long and thin, more than half the length of the head, straight, 
tip notched, anteriorly compressed, basaUy a little expanded, nasal groove 
small, the nostrils open, basal, culmen rounded; no nasal bristles, but a few 
rictal bristles present; lower mandible slender, straight; mterraraal space small 
and feathered; gonys nearly straight, a httle ascending anteriorly. 
The wing has a very minute first primary, the apparent first longest, 
though second, and third little shorter; outer secondaries short and broad; 
iimer secondaries long and pointed, as long as primaries. 
The tail is very long and square, nearly as long as the wing. 
The legs are long and slender, anteriorly showing six delicate scutes, 
posteriorly bilaminate. The toes are long and tliin, the claws long and little 
curved; the outer and inner toes subequal and with claw about equal to 
middle toe without claw; liind-toe stouter but shorter than imier toe, but 
with long claw longer than middle toe and claw. 
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