Gen. Orocetes, Gray.

Syn.   Petrophila, Swains.

Char. - Bill moderately short, straight, tolerably curved at the tip, which is entire ; nostrils overhung by a few nareal bristles ; rictal bristles longer and stronger than in the last genus; wings somewhat short; 3rd quill longest, 2nd sub-equal to it; tail even or slightly rounded ; tarsus and toes a little shorter than in Petrocossyphus ; tarsal  scutae indistinct; lateral toes unequal.

This genus was instituted by Swainson for the Petrocincla cinclorhyncha of Vigors ; which, as Mr. Blyth remarks, is of a more Chat-like form than the last birds, and approximates Turdus saxatilis of Europe. The following species, described and figured as a Petrocincla, is rightly placed in this genus by Bonaparte.