MUSCICAPID.E. 143 



687. Platystira pririt. 



Muscicapa pririt, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xxi. p. 486. 



Platystira pririt, Gray : Strickl. & Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, 

 p. 144. 



Satis pririt, Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 168. 



a W. Africa (N. C. Strickland] 1838. b S. Africa (Bt. at 

 Stevens s) 1842. c Damara-land (C. J. Andersson) 1852. 



LANIOTURDUS. 

 Lanioturdus, Waterhouse, Alex. Exp. App. p. 264 (1838). 



688. Lanioturdus torquatus. 



Lanioturdus torquatus, Waterh. I. s. c. : Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 170. 



Platystira albicauda, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 144. 

 a Damara-land (C. J. Andersson) 1852. 

 The type of P. albicauda, Strickl. 



STENOSTIRA. 

 Stenostira, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 316 (1850). 



689. Stenostira scita. 



Muscicapa scita, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. N. xxi. p. 74. 

 Stenostira scita, Bp. I. s. c. 



Platystira longipes, Sw., Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 143. 

 a S. Africa (Dr A. Smith). 



KHIPIDURA 1 . 



Rhipidura, Vigors & Horsfield-, Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 246 

 (1826). 



690. Rhipidura flabellifera. 



Motacilla flabellifera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 943. 



Rhipidura flabellifera, Gray, Gen. B. p. 32 (1840) : Buller, 

 B. New Zeal. p. 143. 



a New Zealand (Askew) 1840. 



Strickland (Ann. & Mag. viii. p. 373) draws attention to tlie 

 fact that the R. flabellifera of Vigors & Horsfield is not the same 

 as M. flabellifera, Gm. but must be called R. albiscapa, Gould. 



1 Strickland in his review of Jerdon's 'Illustrations of Indian Ornithology' 

 (Ann. & Mag. N. H. xv. p. 275) says that it is impossible to separate by well- 

 defined generic characters Swainson's genus Leucocerca from Rhipidura. 



