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S[axicola] venanthe Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 25G, part; 5th ed., i, 

 1903, 256, part.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 580, part. 



[Motacilla] leucorhoa Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, i)t. 2, 1788, 966 (Senegal; based on 

 Motteux de Senegal Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 249, etc. 



(Enanthe leucorhoa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 428 (Senegal). 



Saxicola leucorhoa Hartlaub, Syst. Orn. Westafr., 1857, 64. 



Sa.ticola leucothoa (typ. error) Lesson, Traite d'Orn., i, 1831, 413. 



Saxicola leucorrhoa Hartlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, 19. 



[Sa„ticola] leucorrhoa Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 176. 



Saxicola venanthe leucorhoa Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiii, no. 1220, 

 Feb. 25, 1901, 476, 479, 480 (crit.; synonymy; list of specimens); Auk, xviii, 

 Apr., 1901, 186 (Gambia, w. Africa). — ^American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xviii, 1901, 309 (check list no. 765a). — Preble, North Am. 

 Fauna, no. 22, 1902, 131 (Felix Harbor, Gulf of Boothia; Albany R.).— Rob- 

 inson, Auk,' xxii, 1905, 315 (Santiago, Cuba, 1 spec, Oct. 16, 1903). 



Saxicola mnanthe leucorrhoa Schalow, Vogel der Arktis, 1904, 271. 



Saxicola amanthoides (not of Vigors) Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 

 1852, 329, part (Labrador).— Gassin, Illustr. Birds Gol., Tex., etc., 1854, 208, 

 part, pi. 34 ("Nova Scotia," i. e., Labrador). — Gaillaru, Contr. Faun. Orn. 

 Eur. Occ, pt. xxix, 1891, 85 (Greenland; Labrador). 



(?) Saxicola isabellina (not of Riippell) Meade-Waldo, Ibis, 1889, 515 (Canary 

 Islands). 



Genus CYANOSYLVIA Brehm. 



Cyano-syhna Brehm, Isis, 1828, 920. (Type, Motacilla sueeica Linnyeus.) 

 Cyanecula Brehm, Isis, 1828, 1280. (Type, Motacilla suecica Linnaeus.) 

 Pandidlla Blyth, in Rennie's Field Nat., i, 1833, 291. (Type, Motacilla suecica 



Linnseus.) 

 Cyanegula (emendation) Boie, Journ. flir Orn., 1857, 166. 

 Cyaneula (emendation ?l Jerdon, Birds India, ii, 1863, 152. 



Small slender-billed, long-legged terrestrial Turdidie with tarsus 

 more than one-third as long as wing and more than half as long as tail, 

 outermost primary slightly longer than primary coverts, ninth primary 

 shorter than fifth, and basal portion of tail rufous, the adult male with 

 throat and chest blue with or without a white or chestnut central 

 spot. 



Bill about half as long as head, very slender; exposed culmen about 

 as long as outer toe (without claw), slightly concave immediately 

 above anterior end of nasal fossae, the mesorhinal portion elevated 

 basally; gonys faintly convex, ascending terminally, about twice as 

 long as mandibular rami; maxillary tomium faintly convex sub- 

 basally, then faintly concave, without distinct subterminal notch. 

 Nostril narrowly ovate, posteriorly in contact with feathering of 

 frontal antise, overhung by rather broad membrane. Rictal bristles 

 distinct, though small; loral feathers with distinct though small 

 bristle-like tips, the more anterior ones decumbent over edge of 

 maxilla. Wing moderate, rounded, less than three times as long as 

 tarsus; outermost (tenth) primary small, but longer than primary 

 coverts; ninth primary shorter than fifth, the eiglith and seventh 

 longest "(sixth but little shorter); longest primaries exceeding longest 



