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speciosns Gray, Genera Birds I. 282. — Gould, Birds Asia IX. Tb. 3. — 
Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1846. XV. 309. — Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1863. 234. [India. China. 
Turdus speciosus Latham, Ind. Ornith. I. 363. 
Muscipeta princeps Vigors, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1830. 22. 
Phoenicornis princeps Gould, Centur. Himal. Birds Tb. 7. 
Pericrocotus princeps Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1846. 
Nget meng tha. — Saliali. — Shah soki kapir. 
subflavus Gray, Genera Birds I. 282. =j. Pericrocotus flammeus Gray. 
xaiithogaster Horsfield et Moore, Cat. Birds EInd. Comp. I. 142. 
[Malacca. Java. Borneo. 
Lanius xanthogaster Raffles^ Transact. Linn. Soc. 1822. XIII, 309. $ 
Pericrocotus igneus Blyth, Journ. as, Soc. Bengal 1846. XV. 309, $ 
Muscicapa flammea Horsfield, Transact. Linn, Soc. 1821. XIII. 146. 
Pericrocotus minutus Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1849. II, Tb. 
Uwis. Semuttan. 
PERIPOPYRRHUS Keichenbach, natiirl. Syst, = Pitylus Cuv. 
PERISOREUS (Corvidae) Bonaparte, Saggio distr. nat, anim. vert. 1831. 43. — 
Gray, Genera Birds 1845. II. 306. = Garrulus Briss, 
Synon.: Dysornithia Swains. 
Bill short with the base broad, the sides compressed, the culmen sloping to the 
tip which is slightly curved and emarginated and the gonys rounded and ascen- 
ding; the nostrils basal, lateral and hidden by the projecting basal plumes. Wings 
moderate, rounded with the fourth, fifth and sixth quills the longest. Tail mo- 
derate and rounded. Tarsi longer than the middle toe and scutellated. Toes 
moderate, with the outer toe longer than the inner; the hind toe long and armed 
with a slightly curved claw. 
canadensis Bonaparte, Saggio distr, 43. — Garrulus canadensis Swains. 
ferrugineus Gray, Genera Birds II. 306. — Levaillant, Oiseaux Parad. 
Tb. 48. 
infaustus Bonaparte, Saggio distrib. 43. = Garrulus infaustus Vieill. 
PERISS06L0SSA (Sylvicolidae. — TceptacJoç eximius, yAoacja lingua) Baird, Review 
amer. Birds 1864. 181. = Mniotilta Vieill. 
Form of Dendroica, but bill slender, acute, with very obsolete notch; the 
commissure gently arched or curved from the base; the gonys also straight or 
even slightly concave. Tongue lengthened, narrow, deeply befid and deeply lace- 
rated or fringed externally at the end; the edge along the median portion folded 
over on the upper surface but not adherent. • 
tigrina Baird, Review amer. Birds 1864. 181, = Mniotilta tigrina Gray. 
PERISSTJRA (Columbidae. — TûÊpiaaoç permagnus, oupa Cauda) Cabanis, Journ. 
Ornith. 1856. IV, 111, = Chamaepelia Swains. 
carolinensis Cabanis, 1. c. = Chamaepelia carolinensis. 
PERISTERA (Columbidae. — Tuspiarepa columba). — Swainson, Journ. Zool, 
1827. III. 360. — Selby, Pigeons 203. — Gray, Genera Birds 1845. IL 475. 
Synon.: Leptoptila Swains, — Tympanistria Reichb. 
Bostrum gracile, suhemarginatum. Alae rotundatae; remige prima brevi, ab- 
rupte attenuata, secunda et quinta fere aequalibus, tertia et quarta aequalibus, 
longissimis. Cauda rotundata. Pedes fortes, nudi, subelongati, tar sis squamis 
anterioribus imbricatis, later alibus nullis, — 17 Specc. 
afra Lichtenstein, Mus. berol. = Turtur afra. 
albifacies Gray, List spec. brit. Mus, 5. = Geotrygon albifacies Sclat. 
albifrons Gray, List spec, brit. Mus. 15, [Mexico. Cuba. Columbia. 
Peristera mexicana Gray, List spec, brit. Mus. 15. 
Leptoptila albifrons Bonaparte, Conspect. Avi*m II. 74, — Reichenbach, 
. Tauben II. 26. — Schlegel, Mus, Pays-Bas Colum, 160, 
boliviana Gray, Genera Birds II. 476. ~ Chamaepelia melanoptera. 
GisBBii, Thesaurus, III, 5 
