GENUS, Chaetornis, Grey.
Bill very short, strong, high, compressed, curved on the culmen, strongly hooked at the tip, and notched; five remarkably strong bristles between the gape and the eyes, forming an almost vertical range curved stiffly outwards ; wing somewhat long; third quill longest; fourth and fifth nearly equal to it; second equal to the seventh ; feet and legs strong ; tarsus moderately long, the middle-toe elongate ; laterals unequal; inner-toe very versatile ; hind-toe long ; all the claws slightly curved.
BookTitle:
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference:
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book:
Genus CHAETORNIS
Year:
1885
Page No:
183
M_ID:
23462
M_SN:
Chaetornis
Term name:
id:
11582
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