628 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



0rtyx"OKEN. Lehrbuch der Naturgesch., Ill, Zool., 2 Abth., 1816, 

 p. 611, viii. 



Type, Tetrao gibraltaricus Gmelin [Turnicidse.] 



'' ' OptvB,, a quail. 



Ossifraga N. Wood, Analyst, II, No. XI, June, 1835, p. 305 (III, 

 1836, p, 199; VI, 1837, p. 241; VII, 1837, p. 37). 



Type, " White-tailed Ossifrage (O. alb i cilia)" h [Buteonidde.] 



Ossifraga, the sea-eagle, osprey. 



Oticulus Hodgson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XVI, Pt. II, 1847, p. 

 889. 



Type, "This bird'[Otf*s bengal enslx] is congeneric with the Likh 

 (Auritus) which Mr. Gray separates from Otis and places in 

 Lesson's Genus Sypheotides, hodie Eupodotis. I had named the 



form, Oticulus " . [ Olidldsa.] 



Diminutive of Otis, a bustard. 



Otus Pennant, Indian Zoology, 1769, p. 3. 



Type, Otus bakkamoena Pennant [Strlgldss.] 



"■£lros, the horned owl. 



f Owenia Gray, Catal. Genera and Subgenera Birds, 1855, p. 152. 



Type, Dinar n is st/ruth ioides Owen [Dinarnithldce.] 



For Richard Owen. 



Oxyporus Brookes, Catal. Mus. Joshua Brookes, Pt. II, July, 1828, 

 p. 95. 



New name for " Casuarius Lin." (type, " Casuarius galeatus" 



or " Carunculated Cassowary ") [ Casuariidse.~\ 



(See also Cela and Thrasys. ) 

 ()£,vz, sharp; 7rcapog, a node on the bones, a callus. 



f Pachypteryx Wiman, Bull. Geol. Inst. Univ. Upsala, VI, Pt. 2, 1905, 

 p. 250. 



Type, Pachypteryx grandis Wiman [Sji/tenlseldw.] 



Tlaxvg, thick; nrepvB,, wing. 



Pachyrhynchus' Wagler, in Ilahn, Vogel aus Asien, Afrika, etc., II, 

 Lief. XIII, 1822, pi. 6 and text. 

 Type, Pachyrhynchus melanocephal/us Wagler ( — Lanius 



cayan us Linnaeus) .....[ Cotingidse,. ] 



TIaxvg, thick; pvyxos, beak. 



" [ntended as a substitute name for Turnix. On p. 611 he gives the generic head- 

 ing thus: "Ortyx, Turnix, Tridactylus," and on p. viii it stands as "Ortyx (Tur- 

 nix)." 



MVith references to Gould, Birds of Europe, Pt. VII, pi. 19, and Pt. IX, pi. 5 

 (adult, and young <>f the first year). 



c Wagler, not Spix, is the authority for this name. 





