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PELIONETTA. — PELTOPS. 
variabilis Brehm, Vögel Doutsclil. 6G2. = Tringa variabilis Meyer. 
Wilsoni GuNDLACii, Joiirn. Oriiith. 18G1. IX. Tb. 10. — Tringa minutillaYiEiLL. 
PELIONETTA (Aimtinae) Kaup, Entwickl. Thierw. 1829. 107. — Baird, Birds 
N America 804. = Anas Lin. 
Synon.: Macrorhamplms Less. — Oidemia Swains. 
Feathers not extending on sides of bill at all. Nail pointed anteriorly. 
Colors black with a triangular white patch on top of head and another on nape. 
Bill red, with a rounded black lateral spot at base. 
perspicillata Kaup, Entwickl. Thiorw. 107. — Anas perspicillata Lin. 
Trowbridgei Baird, Birds NAmerica 806. = Anas j^erspicillata Lin. 
PELIPERDIX Lathami Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIL 882. = Franco- 
linus Lathami Hartl. 
PELLORNEOl (Crateropodinae). — Swainson, Fauna bor. amer. 1831. 487; 
Classif. Birds 1837. IL 233. 
Si/no7i.: CincHdia Gould. — Hemipteron Hodgs. — Pellornium Swains. 
Bill moderate, straight, sometvhat cofiic; the tip notched, gonys ascending 
Frontal feathers small^ rigid, directed forwards. Rictus bristled. Wings very 
shorty much rounded. Tail moderate, graduated. Tarsus and middle toe of equal 
lenght; lateral toes much shorter and equal; hinder toe shorter than the tarsus. 
Anterior claws very small, and but slightly curved. Tarsal scales scarcely divided. 
— 4 Specc. 
fuscocapilluni Blyth. [Ceylon. 
Mandelli Blanford, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1871. 216. = Pellorneum rufi- 
ceps Swains. 
minus Hume, Stray Feathers 1872. L — Pegu. 
olivaceum Jerdon, Madras Journ. X. 255. = Pellorneum ruficeps Swains. 
ruficeps Swainson, Fauna bor. amer. 487. [India. Nepal. 
Megalurus ruficeps Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832. 91. 
Motacilla dumeticola Tickell, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1833. II. 576. 
Cinclidia j)unctata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. V. 137. 
Hemijyteryx nepalensis Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 83. 
Pellorneum olivaceum Jerdon, Madras Journ. X. 255. 
Pellorneum Mandelli Blanford, Proc. as. Soc. Bengal 1871. 217; Journ. 
1872. 160. 
Bulbul postha. 
palustre Jerdon, Ibis 1872. IL 300. — Gould, Birds Asia XXIV. Tb. 
[Khasia Hills. Assam. 
subochraceum Swinhoe, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1871. VII. 257. = Pellorneum 
Tickelli Blyth. 
Tîckellî Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1859. 414. [Tenasserim. 
Mixornis olivaceus Tickell, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1859. 449. 
Pellorneum subochraceum Swinhoe, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1871. VII. 257. 
PELODES Kaup, Entwickl. Thierw. 1829. — Gray, Handl. Birds UL 121. = 
Sterna Lin. 
PELOPERDIx'(Perdicidae) Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1859. 415. = Perdix 
Synon.: Tropidoperdix Blyth. 
Charltoni Gray, Handl. Birds II. 268. = Francolinus Cranchi Steph. 
chloropus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1859. 453. — Perdix chloropus. 
javanica Gray, Handl. Birds II. 268. = Perdix javanica Lath. 
personata Gray, Handl. Birds II. 268. = Perdix per sonata Horsf. 
PELORHYNCHUS Brehmi Kaup, Entw. Thier. 119. Gallinago scolopacea Bonap. 
PELTOPS (Muscicapidae. — tusXty] scutellum). — Waglfr, Oken's Isis 1829. 
— Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 59. — Sclater, Ibis 1872. 177. — Gie- 
bel, Zeitschr. ges. Naturwiss. 1872. XXXIX. 481. 
Synon.: Erolia Less. 
Von Cymbirhynchus verschieden durch den flachen Vnterschnabel , erhobene 
