Genus—MIM E T A. 
Gracula viridis Latli.= 
Coracias sagittata Latham. 
Oordcias sagittcUu Latham. 
Mimeta Vigors and Horsfield, Ti-ans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), VoL XV., p. 326, Eeb. 17tli, 
1827. New name for Mimetes King 
Type (by subsequent designation) Lesson, 
Compl. de Buff., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 497, 1838 
3Iimetes King, Survey Intertrop. Coasts Austr., 
Vol. IL, p. 418, “ 1827 ” = April 15th, 1826. 
Type, as above . 
Not— 
Mimetes Eschscholtz, Mem. I'Acad. Imp. Sci., St. Petersb.. 1818, 
Nor— 
Huebner, Verz. bekannt. Schmett.. p. 210, 1822. 
AiTiiiYictd MsitliGws, Austral Avian Record, 
Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 62, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
New name for Mimeta ^^igors and Horsfield. 
Orioles of dull streaked coloration, ^vith long bills, long wings, long tail, and 
small stout legs and feet. 
I he bill is as long as the head, laterally compressed, not much expanded 
basaUy ; culmen ridge semikeeled ; culmen nearly straight, anteriorly sloping 
forwards, tip sharp, strongly decurved and posteriorly notched; nasal groove 
smaU, about one-fourth the length of the biU; nostrils open as operculate 
linear slits, a few smaD nasal bristles, and rictal bristles small and obscure; 
the mider mandible nearly as stout as upper, gonys long, a little ascending 
but not angulate, the inteiTamal space small and feathered. 
The wing has the first primary short, about half the length of the second, 
the tliird and fourth subequal and longest, the second shorter than the fifth 
but longer than the sixth, the secondaries short. 
I he tail-feathers broad, the tail romided in shape. 
I he legs short, scutate in front, with five scutes, bilaminate behind; 
the middle toe and claw longer than the liind-toe and claw, the inner toe shorter 
than the outer. 
The genus name 31imetes was proposed by King for these birds like 
Orioles, which were Honey-suckers, and, as the name had been used before. 
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