Genus —PTILONORHYNCHUS. 
Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, Beitr. Vergl. Anat., 
p. 150, (pref. April 9th) 1820. Type (by 
monotypy) .. .. .. .. P. holosericeus Kulil= 
Pyrrhocoraz violaceus Vieillot. 
Also spelt— 
PUlenorhynchusTemmmck, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. I., p. 108, 1821. 
Ptilorhynchus Temminck efc Laugier, Planch. Color d’Oia. text to 67* livr., 1826. 
Ptylonorhynchua “ Boie ** Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, p. 65, 1855. 
Kitta Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color 
d’Ois, 67® hvT. (Vol. IV., pi. 395), 
July 12th, 1826. Type (by original 
designation) .. .. .. .. P. holosericeus Kuhl= 
P. violacem Vieillot. 
Also spelt— 
CUta Wagler, Systema Avium Ptilono. Additamenk, 1827. 
Large stoutly built “ Bower-Birds ” with flat heads, satin male plumage, 
short, very stout biU haK hidden by frontal feathering, long wings, short tai{ 
long strong legs and feet. 
The bill is really about as long as the head, but the projecting frontal 
feathers encroach about half-way, leaving visible a very stout exposed bill 
only about half the length of the head proper. • 
The exposed culmen is strongly arched, semi-keeled, ^nearly triangular, 
sides a little convex; the nostrils are circular holes in the fore-part of the 
nasal groove, but are entirely liidden by frontal feathering; the lateral edges 
of the upper mandible are straight towards the tip, then descending obscurely 
serrate with a notch in front of curved sharp tip; under mandible almost 
as stout as upper, interramal space feathered, nearly half the length of the 
bill, gonys a httle ascending. 
The wing has the third, fourth, fifth and sixth primaries subequal and 
longest, the second about equal to the eighth and a little longer than the 
secondaries; the first primary half the length of the third. 
The tail is square, feathers broad, upper and under tail-coverts long. 
The feet very long and strong, seven scutes in front, bilaminate behind; 
the toes are long, the imier and outer toes subequal, the inner toe and claw 
shorter than the middle toe alone, claws long and sharp; the hind-toe a little 
longer than inner toe, claw longer and stouter, but hind-toe and claw less than 
middle toe and claw. 
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