PLATYSTOMUS. 
Platystira affinis i^iNScu, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1870. VII. 315. 
Batis orienialis Sharpe, Ibis 1873. III. 165. 
pectoralis Swainson, Flycatch. 189. = Tchitrea torquata Gray. 
peltata Sundevall, Oefvcrs. kgl. vet. Akad. Forhdl. 1850. 105. — Siiarpe, 
Ibis 1873. III. 160. [Damara. Caffraria. 
perspicillata Layard, Birds SAfrica 144. ~ Bhipidura javanica Blytii. 
pistrinaria Gray, Genera Birds I. 256. = Plalyfitira capensis Gray. 
plninbea v. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfrica Tf. 17. [Africa or. 
Stenostira plumbea Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1858. VI. 41. 
pririt Gray, Genera Birds I. 257. [Africa merid. 
Gobemouche pririt Levaillant, Oiseaux Ati\ IV. 38. Tb. 161. 
Muscicapa xoririt Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 819. 
Muscipeta senegalensis Lesson, Traité Ornith. 385. 
PlaUjstira senegalensis Mont, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865. 95. 
Batis pririt Sharpe, Ibis 1873. III. 168. 
pririt Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 59. = Platystira molitor Lichtst. 
pririt Blanford, Geol. Zool. Abyss. 345. = Platystira orientalis Heugl. 
pririt Finsch u. Hartlaub, Ornith. Africa 315. = Platystira af finis Waulb. 
scita Gray, Genera Birds I. 256. [Africa merid. 
Gobemouche mignard Levaillant,. Oiseaux Afr. Tb. 154. 
Muscicapa scita Vieillot, nouv. Diet. hist. nat. XXI. 494. 
Muscicapa tenella Lichtenstein, Vögel Kaffernld. 12. — 
Platystira longipes Swainson, Flycatch. 185. Tb. 21. — Layard, Birds SAfr. 193. 
Stenostira scita Bonaparte, Cons. Av. I. 316. — Sharpe, Ibis 1873. HI. 175. 
seniipartita [Africa or. sept. 
Muscicapa semipartita Rüppell, neue Wirbeith. 107. Tf. 40. Fig. 1. 
Batis semipartita Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 318. 
Cassinia semipartita v. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfrica I. 433. 
Stenostira semipartita Gray ^ Handl. Birds I. 330. 
senegalensis Gray, Genera Birds I. 256. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. NO Afr. 
447. — Hairtlaub, Ornith. WAfrica 93. [Africa occ. Abyssinia. 
Muscicapa senegalensis pectore nigro, pect, rufo Brisson, Ornith. II. 374. 
Tb. 37. Fig. 2. 3. — Buffon,_P1. enlum. 567. Fig. 1. 2. 
Muscicapa senegalensis Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 317. 
Platyrhynchus velatus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 835. 
Muscylvia senegalensis Lesson, Compl. Buffon VIII. 386. 
Platystira succincta Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 20. 
Batis senegalensis Sharpe, Ibis 1873. III. 163. 
senegalensis Mont, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865. 95. = Platystira pririt Gray. 
strepitans Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 20. = Platystira capensis Gray. 
succincta Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 20. Platystira senegalensis Hartl. 
thoracica Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 20. Platystira capensis Gray. 
torquata [Damara. 
Lanioiurdus torquatus Waterhouse, Alex. Exped. II. 264. — Sharpe, Ibis 
1873. m. 170. 
Platystira albicauda Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1852. 144. 
Moquinus tandonus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLII. 820. 
Moquinus albicaudus Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1857. 52. Tb.^ 5. 
Hypsipus torquatus Sundevall, Method. Avium 24. 
PLATYSTOMUS (Muscicapidae. — TcXaxuç latus, aropia os) Swainson, Classif. 
Birds 1837. H. 261. Peltops Wagl. 
Bill as broad as the head; the base encircled by a thickened margin: the 
cutting edge of the upper mandible not dilated or folding over that of the under. 
Rictus strongly bristled. Nostrils basal, oblong, naked and without a membrane. 
Wings lengthened, pointed; the outer quills graduated; the furth and fifth quills 
eo,ual and longest. Tail moderate, forked. Feet as in Eurylaimus, but the tar- 
sus is shorter. The fissirostral type. 
