the scientific name of a genus of New Zealand birds, including the Yellow-head (q.v.) andthe White-head (q.v.); from Greek klinein, root klit, to lean, slant, and 'onux, claw. The genuswas so named by Reichenbach in 1851, to distinguish the NewZealand birds from the Australian birds of the genus Orthonyx (q.v.), which formerly included them both.