224 PLATYSMURÜS. — PLATVSTIRA. 
ruficollis Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 839. — Myiafjra ruhecula. 
rufiventris Vieillot, Encycl. mélli. 843. = Rhipldura rußventris. 
rupestris Pz. Wied, Beitr. Natg. Bras. III. 997. = Muscivora fefruyinea Cab. 
sti'iatiis Lesson, Revue Zool. 1839. 41. = Rhipidura striata. 
siilfurescens Spix, Aves Brasil. II. 10. Tb. 12. Fig. 1. $ = C/jclorhynchus 
sidphurescens Cab. 
siilfurescens Spix, Aves Brasil. II. 10. Tb. 12. Fig. 2. ? Cyclorhynchus 
olivaceus Gray. 
siiperciliaris Lawrence, Ibis V. 184. [Panama. 
Platyrhynchus cancroma Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York VII. 330. 
vanicorensis Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe 183. Tb. 5. Fig. 1. = Monarcfia 
castaneiventris Verr. 
velatus Vieillot, Encycl. métb. 835. = Platystira senegalensis. 
virescens Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 844. = Myiohius acadicus Gray. 
xanthopygus Srix, Aves Brasil. II. 9. Tb. 9. Fig. 1. = Myiohms ccantho- 
pygus Cab. 
PLATYSMURUS Reiciienbacii, natürl. Syst. 1850. Tf. 80. ^ Temnurus Less. 
leucopterus Moore, Proc. Zool: Soc. 1859. 446. Temnurus leucoiUerus 
Gray. 
Pli\TYSTIRÄ. (Muscicapidae. — TrXaTUi; latus, Gtstpa carina). — Jardine et 
Selby, Illustr. Ornith. Tb. 9. — Gray, Genera Birds I. 256. — Siiarpe, Ibis 
1873. IV. 156. 
Si/non.: Platysteira Jard. — Platystera Swains. — Batis Boie. — Muscylva Less. — 
Lanioturdus Wath. — Stenostira Cab. — Empidivora Reichb. — Myiopliila Harth — Dya- 
phorophyia Bonap. — Agromyias, Stiphromyias Heine. 
Bill ynore or less long, broad at the base and depressed, icith the culmen 
straight at the base and then curved to the tip, which is emarginated and hooked; 
the lateral margins strairglit and the sides compressed to the tip; the gonys long 
and ascending ; the gap furnished ivith moderatly bristles; the nostrils basal, lateral^ 
covered by a membranous scale, and partly by the frontal plumes and bristles; 
wing moderate, with the third quill nearly as long as the fourth, fifth and sixth, 
which are equal and longest; tail more or less long ^ and rounded at the end; 
tarsi longer than the middle toe and covered in front with broad scales; toes 
moderate, with the outer toe longer than the inner and the hind toe long; the 
claws moderate, curved and acute. — 17 Specc. 
affiiiis Wahlberg, Oefvers. kgl. vet. Akad. Forhdl. 1855. XII. 214; Journ. 
Ornith. 1857. V. 3. — [cf. Platystira pririt Gray.] [Damara. 
Platystira pririt Finscii u. Hartlaub, Ornitb. Africa 315. $ 
Platystira strepitans Layard, Birds SAfr. 144. 
Batis affinis Gray, Handl. Birds L 329. 
albicauda Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1852. 144. — Platystira torquata. 
albifroiis Siiarpe, Ibis 1873. III. 159. [Angola. 
Platystira melanoptera Siiarpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869. 566. 
Blisseti [Africa occid, 
Diaphorophijia Blisseti Sharpe, Ann. Mag. nat. hist. 1872. X. 451 ; Ibis 
1873. m. 173. 
brevicauda Swainson, Flycatchers 189. = Platystira leucopygialis Fras. 
capensis Gray, Genera Birds I. 257. — Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. 
XXXVIII. 653. — V. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfr. 453. [Africa herid, 
Muscicapa capensis Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 327. 
Muscicapa bonae spei Brisson, Ornith. II. 372. Tb. 36. Fig. 3. 
Molenar Levaillant, Oiseaux Afrique Tb. 160. 
Muscicapa pistrinaria Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 816. 
Saxicola thoracica Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. 32. $ 
Muscicapa pidsator Stephens, gener. Zool. XIV. 
Muscipeta p>istrinuria Lesson, Traité Ornith. 385. 
Platystira pistrinaria Gray, Genera Birds I. 256. — Layard, Birds SAfr. 143. 
