Genus CHAETORNIS

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.