612 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.53. 



fPalaeocasuarius "Forbes" Rothschild, Extinct Birds, 1907, p. 219. 



Type, I'alaeocasuariiis haasti ' ' ' Forbes " Rothschild [Dinomithidae.] 



(Original designation.) 



tPalseolestes De Vis, Annals Queensland Museum, No. 10, Nov. 1, 1911, pp. 15, 17. 



Type, Palseolestes gorei De Vis [Incertae sedis/^] 



(Monotypy.) 



tPal8eophasianus Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, Aug. 4, 1913, 

 p. 291. 



Type, Palseophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt [Incertae sedis.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 UaXaids, anci ^.nt+4>a(na;^6$, a pheasant. (Shufeldt.) 



Pallenia Bonaparte, Rivista Contemporanea [Torino], vol. 9, fasc. 40, February, 

 1857, p. 212 (p. G of reprint); Salvadori, Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, vol. 49, 

 1914, pp. 447-451. 



Type, Cypselus gigantea Temminck [ Micropodidae.] 



(Subsequent designation; Gray, 1869.^) 



Paludipasser Neave, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 25, No. 155, Nov. 30, 1909, p. 25, 

 Ibis, 1910, p. 251, pi. 3. 



Type, Paludipasser locustella Neave [Ploceidae.] 



(Original designation and monotj^jy.) 



Paragraucalus Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 58. 



Type, Cehlepyris lineatus Swainson [Campephagidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Uapi., heaide+Graucaliis (ypayKaXos, a kind of bird). (Mathews, MS.) 



fParaortyx Gaillard, Annales Univ. Lyon, nouv. ser., Sciences, M^decine, fasc. 23, 

 1908, p. 104. 



Type, Paraortyx lorteti Gaillard [Phasianidae.'] 



(Present designation.*) 



Paraptilotis Mathews, No\it. Zool., vol. 18, No. 3, Jan. 31, 1912, p. 414. 



Type, Meliphaga fusca Gould [Meliphagidae,] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 Uapii, heaide +Ptilotis {tttLXov, feather; ovs, o>t6s, ear). (Mathews, MS.) 



Parascolopax Mathews, Birds of Australia, vol. 3, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, p. 290. 



Type, Scolopax salurata Hodgson [Scolopaddae.] 



(Original designation and monotj-py.) 

 Ilapa, \)Gside-{- Scolopax {aKo\6ira^, a large snipe-like bird). (Mathews, MS.) 



Paraspizias Mathews, Birds of Australia, vol. 5, pt. 1, Nov. 5, 1915, p. 74. 



Type, Sparvius cirrhocephalus Vieillot [Buteonidae.] 



(Monotypy.) 

 (Subgenus of Acdpiter or Urospiza.) 

 IlapA, beside; crTriftas, the sparrow hawk. (Mathews, MS.) 



Parasula Mathews, Austral Avian Record, vol. 2, No. 2-3, Oct. 23, 1913, p. 55. 



Type, Sula dactylatra bedouti Mathews [Sulidae.] 



(Original designation and monotypy.) 

 UttpA, beside+5ttto. (Mathews, MS.) 



» A nomen nudum with Forbes, 1892, but Rothschild gives a description. 



* Related to the Aceipitres. 



» G ray ( Fland-List, vol. 1, 1869, p. 07) treats this as a new name for Pallene Lesson, 1837 (preoccupied), with 

 gigantea as the only species. 



* Two species are described, P. lorteti and P. brancoi, respectively. 



