Genus— AUSTRANTHUS. 
Austbanthus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 123, Jan. 28th, 1915. Type 
(by original designation) . Anihus australis Vieillot. 
Medium Pipits with medium bills, long wing, long tail, and long stout legs and 
large delicate feet. 
The bill is more than half the length of the head, slender, straight, a 
little depressed anteriorly, point sharp, posteriorly notched, laterally 
compressed, the basal expansion small, width at the base about equal to the 
depth ; the nostrils linear slits in a small nasal groove upon which the frontal 
feathers approach but do not obscure the apertures ; the lower mandible about 
as stout as the upper, the mterramal space feathered and narrow, less than 
half the length of the bill; there are no nasal bristles and the rictal bristles 
are very small. 
The wing is long, the first three primaries longest and subequal, the 
succeeding ones a little shorter respectively, the secondaries long and pointed 
and equal to the sixth primary. 
The tail is long and square, about two-thirds the length of the wing. 
The legs are long and stoutish, the anterior face of the tarsus scutate, 
but sometimes scutes obscure, the hinder portion bilaminate; the anterior 
toes are long, the outer longer than the inner, the outer toe and claw equal to 
the middle toe alone ; claws rather long and straight; the liind-toe longer than 
the inner toe and much stouter; the hind-claw long and httle curved, longer 
than the hind-toe; the hind-toe and claw longer than the middle toe and claw. 
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