680 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxiv. 
Drepanorhynchus Kothschild, Avifauna of Laysan, etc., Pt. 3, Dec, 
1900, pi. LXii. 
Type, Drejmnis funerea Newton (see DrepanorhainpTius). 
, ^ ^ \^Drepanid(B.^ 
JpsTtav?/^ a sickle; pvyxog^ a beak. 
Dryocolaptes Gistel, Naturgesch. des Thierreichs fiir hohere Schulen, 
1818, p. 86. 
Type, Pious tridactykis Linnseus [Picidce.] 
Dryolimnas Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, I, Jan. 26, 1893, p. xxviii. 
Type, Pallus cuvieri Pucheran [Pallidce.] 
/Ipvog, a copse, thicket; Xi^vdrg^ marshy, of the mere. 
fDryornis Moreno and Mercerat, Anales Mus. La Plata (Paleon. 
Argen., I), 1891, p. 59. 
Type, Dryornis pampeanus Moreno and Mercerat. 
[Stereornithes.] 
^pvs, a tree, an oak; opvis^ a bird. 
Lupetor Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 
1890, p. 308. 
New name for Ardeiralla Bonaparte [Ardeidce.^ 
Aovrti'/roop^ a clatterer. 
Dybowskia Oustalet, Le Naturaliste, ser. 2, VI, Sept. 15, 1892, p. 218. 
Tj-pe, PyJjov'sl'Hi Jieraoensis Oustalet. [Timaliidce.] 
Named for Jean Dybowski. 
t Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, Compte-Rendu Second Congres 
Ornith. Int., II, 1892, p. 64. 
Type, Dynamopterus velox Milne-Edwards \^CticulidcB.\ 
/ivvafxig^. power, force; nnpov^ wing. 
Ecmeles Gistel, Naturgesch, des Thierreichs fiir hohere Schulen, 1848, 
p. ix. 
New name for Hydrocorax Vieillot \^Phala(y)''ocoracidcB.^ 
EKfAskr/g^ out of tune, irregular, unbridled. 
Einalia Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn., 
1890, p. 358. 
New name for Laroides Brehm, on grounds of purism. 
[LaridcB.'\ 
EivdXiog^ of the sea. 
Elachura Gates, Fauna of Brit. India (Birds), I, Dec, 1889, p. 339. 
Type, Troglodytes punGtatus Blyth {TroglodytidcB.^ 
(see Spilopteixi.) 
liXaxvg^ small; ovpa^ tail. 
t Elaphrocnemus Milne-Edwards, Compte-Rendu Second Congres 
Ornith. Int., II, 1892, p. 77. 
Type, Elaphrocnemus phasia/nus Milne-Edwards (first species 
mentioned) [Ralliformes.'] 
EXa^pog nimble, swift; kvij^j]^ the leg. 
