Genus—PHONY GAMMUS. 
PHONyQAiiMUS Lesson et Gamot, in 
Fcrussac’s Bull. Sci. Nat., Vol. VIII., 
p. 110, (March) 1826. Type (by 
monotypy) .. .. .. .. Barita keraudrenii Lesson et Garnot. 
Also Spelt— 
Phonygama Lesaon, Diet. Gnss. & Hist. Nat., Vol. XIII., p. 399, 1828. 
Phonigama C&haniB. Arch, fur Naturg. (VViegraan), 1847, p. 335. 
PAoneo^a/TW Agassiz, Index Univer., 12mo ed., p. 828, 1848. 
Chalybceus Cuvier, Regne Animal, 2nded., 
Vol. L, p. 354, April 11th, 1829. 
Type (by tautonymy) ,. .. C. paradiseus= 
M. chalybata Pennant. 
Also Spelt— 
CaJybcus Lesson, CompL de Buffon, 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 403, 1840. 
Paeadise Bu'ds, the sexes of which are similar, with elongate feathers on 
each side of the head resembling “ horns,” lanceolate feathers on the bacjk 
of the neek, throat and upper breast, long bill, long wings, long tail and short 
stout legs and feet. 
The bill is longer than the head, laterally compressed, with little basal 
expansion, tip decurved, distinctly hooked, posteriorly notched, lateral edges 
of upper mandible nearly straight; the nasal 'groove long, about one-third 
the length of the bill, the nostrils oval placed anteriorly in groove, feathers 
encroaching a Httle on the gi’oove but not obseming the nostrils ; nasal 
bristles long and strong, rictal bristles few and obscure ; the under mandible 
nearly as stout as the upper, the depth of both mandibles at the base more than 
the width, the interramal space large, triangular, fully feathered, fully half 
the length of the bill, gonys a httle ascending. 
The \ving is long and rounded, the foiuth, fifth and sixth subequal and 
longest, the third and seventh httle shorter, the latter longer; the secondaries 
long and broad, longer than the third primary; the first primary short, a httle 
more than half the length of the second, but less than hah the length of the 
third. 
The tail is long and regularly wedge-shaped, the feathers broad. 
The legs are short and stout, the tarsus showing five scutes in front, 
bilaininate behind; the toes are comparatively short and stout; the middle 
toe longest but not longer than the inner toe and claw, the outer and inner 
toes subequal, all the claws long and sharp ; the hind-toe long and stout, the 
claw medium and stout, the hind-toe and claw about equal to the middle 
toe and claw. 
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