634 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



Plectrophanes " Leach, " Gray or Griffith, in Cuvier, Animal King- 

 dom, VIII, 1829, p. 600." 



Type, Anas gambensis Linnaeus \Anatidae,. \ 



IlkrJKT-pov, a spur; (j)aivoo, I show, exhibit. 



*Plotoides Brookes, Museum Brookesianum, Feb., 1830, p. 109. 

 Type, " JPlotoides surinamensis" or "Surinam Plotoides."^ 



[ Ihliorn itJt idse? \ 

 Plotus (nXooTog, sailing, floating); + eidog, resemblance. 



Poeciloides Bianchi, Annuaire Mus. Zool. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersb., 

 VII, No. 3, 1902, p. 241. 

 Type, Poedli supt rciliosa Przewalski [Paridse. \ 



Poecile (noiKikog, spotted, variegated); + sidog, resemblance. 



Pogoniulus Lafresnate, Diet. Univers. d'Hist. Nat., II, 1843, p. 463. 

 Type, "Le Barhion de Levaillant {Bucco parvus Gruel.). " c 



[Caption idee. \ 

 Quasi-Latin diminutive of Pogonia (jtGoycoviag, bearded). 



Pogonornis"' Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scand., I, Pars 2, 1828, tab. A. 



New name for Pogonias Illiger [ Caption idse. \ 



IlGoycov^ a beard ; opvig, bird. 



Poliocichla Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, IV, 1903, p. 175. 



New name for Emarginata Shelley (because Emarginata is an 



adjective) [ Turdidse. \ 



Ilokiog, gray; K ix^ r U a thrush. 



Poliolais Alexander, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, XIII, No. XCIV, Jan. 

 30, 1903, p. 36. 



Type, Poliolais lielenorse Alexander [Sylviida . | 



IloXwg, gray ; Xai'og, a bird of the thrush kind. 



Polyplectron Temminck, Catal. Systemat., 1807, p. 149. 



Type, Polyplectron argus Temminck (= Pav<> bicalcaratus 



Linnaeus) . - - [Phasian idse. \ 



17o\vg, many ; nXrfKrpov^ a cock's spur. 



« "Some have the bend of the wing armed. They form the genus Plectrophanes, 

 Leach, (not Meyer)." See also Brandt, Descr. et [cones Aniin. Ross. Novorum, 

 Axes, Fasc. I, 1836, p. 6. 



"This is probably the "Surinam Darter" of Latham or lt Plotus surinamensis" of 

 Gmelin ( = Colymbus fulica Boddaert). 



c On p. 4(io he gives as type "le Barbion de Levaillant,. Bucco parvus des auteurs." 

 Pogoniulus should replace Xylobucco of Mr. Oberholser's recent revision (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 867. 



""Phis name forbids the further use of Pogonornis (Gray, 1846) for the stitch-bird 

 (Meliphaga cincta Dubus). The latter may be renamed Notiomystis. 



