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PHASIDUS. — PHEGORNIS. 
rufus Raffles, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1822. XIII. 321. = Ewplocamus ignitus 
.Tard. 
satyrus Temminck, Pig. Gall. III. 762. — Tragopan saiyrus Cuv. 
scintillans Gould, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1866. XVI. 150. = Phasianus Soem- 
mer'mgi Teal 
8hawi Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870. 403; Phasianidae II. Tb. [Turkestan. 
Soeniineriiigi Temminck, PI. color. 487. 488. [Japonia. 
Graphe phasianus Soemmeringi Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. 29. 
Phasianus (Graphephasianus) scintillans Gould, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1866. 
XVII. 150. 
Stacei Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831. I. 35. = Phasianus Wallichi Gray. 
Stadeni Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870. 408. =r Phasianus elegans Elliot. 
superbus Linne, Mantissa 1771. 526. = Phasianus Beevesi Gray. 
torquatns Gmeltn, Syst. Nat. I. 742. — Gould, Birds Asia VII. Tb. 1. — Elliot, 
Phasianidae V. Tb. [Asia. 
Phasianus albotorquatus Bonnaterre, Encycl. méth. 184. 
Yeh chi. 
varius Shaw, Natur. Miscell. X. — Phasianus Beevesi Gray. 
versicolor Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux II. 23. Tb. 205. $ — Cabanis, Ersch 
u. Grub. Encycl. 3. sect. XXII. 151. [Japonia. 
Phasianus Diardi Temminck, PI. color. 486. 493. 
Wallichi Gray, Catal. Birds Nepal 1846. 224. [Himalaya. 
Lophophorus Wallichi Hardwick, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1826. XV. 166. — 
Elliot, Phasianidae IV. Tb. 
Phasianus Stacei Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831. I. 35. — Gould, Centur. 
Himal. Birds Tb. 68. 
Catreus Wallichi Cabanis, Ersch Grub. Encycl. 1851. LUI. 221. 
Gennaeus Wallichi Cabanis, Ersch Grub. Encycl. 3. sect. XXII. 149. 
Lophophasianus Wallichi Reichenbach, natürl. Syst, 29. 
Chir , Cheor. Banchil , Herril. 
PHASIDÜS (Gallinae. — (s^olqiq simulacrum). — Cassin, Journ. acad. Phila- 
delphia 1858. IV. 7. 
Allied to Numida and Agelastus, but more ressembling the latter. General 
form rather higkt, but robust., and adapted to walking or running, head nacked, 
wing rather short, tertiaries longer than the primaries; fifth and sixth primaries 
longest., tail moderate, legs rather long; tarsi strong with large hexagonal or irre- 
gularly shaped scales obliquely inserted in front and smaller behind, toes moderate, 
united at base by a large membrane; hind toe short; claws sharp and rather strong. 
Bill rather wide, curved and rounded at the point; cere large; aperture of the 
nostril large. 
niger Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philad. 1856. 322; Journ. acad. Philad. 1858. IV. 
8. Tb. 3. [Africa occid. 
PHASMAPTYNX (Subgen. Oti) Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 237; Oken's 
Isis 1848. 770. = Otus Cuv. 
The bill small and curved. Wings long. First wingfeather not so long as 
the fifth. First to third wingfeathers beginning at two inches from the end more 
or less emarginated. The first wingfeather as in Otus brachyotus, very short 
and dentelated. 
capensis Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 237. = Otus capensis Smith. 
PHEDINA borbonica Bonaparte, Rivista Contemp. Torino 1857. 4. — Sharpe, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870. 295. = Hirundo borbonica Gmel. 
madagascariensis Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1860. VIII. 83. = Hirundo bor- 
bonica Gmel. 
PHEGORIVIS (Charadriadae). — Gray, Genera Birds 1847. III. 545. 
Synoit.: Leptopus, Leptodactylus Fras. — Leptoscelis Desm. 
Bill longer than the head, very slender and straight, with the tip slightly 
vaulted, the sides compressed and grooved; the nostrils basal, linear and placed 
