Genus— SCENOPOEETES. 
ScENOPOEETES Coues, Auk, Vol. VIII., 
p. 115, Jan. 1891. New name for 
Scenopoeus Ramsay. Type (by mono- 
typy) .. .. .. .. .. Scenopoeus dentirostris Ramsay. 
Scenopoeus Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lend.), 1875, p. 591, AprU 1st, 1876. 
Type (by monotypy) .. .. .. S. dentirostris Ramsay. 
Not— 
Scempaua Agassiz, Index Univers., 12mo ed., p. 963, 1848. 
Tectonornis Sharpe, Monogr. Paradis., pt. 1 
(end), 1891. New name for Scenopoeus 
Ramsay .. 
Laege “ Bower-Birds ” with short, stout, falcon-like bills, long wings, medium 
tail and short legs and feet. 
The bUl is shorter than the head, stout, as broad as deep ; culmen rounded 
and strongly arched, tip strongly decurved and sharp, posteriorly notched, 
the notch deep and coarse forming a succeeding tooth, the latei’al edges of 
the mandible thence straight; a groove along each side of the mandible 
running from the notch to the nasal depression; this nasal depression shows 
the nasal apertures as round and open, not hidden by frontal feathering, which 
otherwise fills the depression; nasal bristles long, reaching over the nostrils 
but not covering them; rictal bristles few; the imder mandible stout, large 
interramal space broad, romided, and sparsely feathered; rami stout; the 
gonys half the length of the mandible, semi-keeled and ascending to the 
notch of the upper mandible. 
The ^ving is long with the fourth and fifth primaries longest, the third and 
sixth subequal and very little shorter, the second longer than the seventh; 
the first primary shorter, more than half the length of the third, but shorter 
than the broad secondaries. 
The tail is square, the feathers broad. 
The legs are short and stout, the scutes on the front of the tarsus obscure 
so that the tarsus appears almost booted, the back bHamuiate ; the mid-toe 
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