PLATYSTYLOPTERÜS. — PLECTROPHANES. 
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Blainvillei Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 261. = Peltops Blainvillei Wagl. 
PLATYSTOPTERUS Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854. ^ Platystylopterus Reiciib. 
PLATYSTYLOPTERÜS hyperythrus REiciiENiiAcii, Aufz{ihl. Colibri 11. Polyt- 
miis hyperythrus. 
PLATYÜRTJS (Pteroptochidae. — tzXolvjç latus, oupa cauda) Swainson, Classif. 
Birds 1837. IL 319. = Pteroptochus Kittl. 
Bill moderate, straight, compressed; very high at the base of the culmen, 
which is there slightly gibbous, and divider the frontal feathers. Upper mandible 
distinctly notched. Nostrils very large, basal, protected by a scale like convex 
membrane. Frontal feathers stiff, setaceous narrow and sometimes reflected for- 
wards. Wings remarkably short and rounded, very convex. Tail lengthened and 
graduated; the feathers very soft and broad. Feet very large. Middle toe as 
long as the tarsus; lateral toes equal and cleft at their base, hind toe shorter 
than the tarsus. All the claws compressed and but slightly curved; the three 
anterior small; the posterior twice as long. 
affinis Swainson, Birds Braz. Tb. 57. ~ Cyphorhinus modulator Cab. 
corniculatus Swainson, Birds Braz. Tb. 55. — Pteroptochus rhinolophus Sclat. 
lepturus Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 319. = Pteroptochus paradoxus Gay. 
Diger Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 319. = Scytalopus magellanicus Gould. 
rubecula Swainson, Birds Braz. Tb. 14. = Cyphorhinus musicus Gray. 
PLAUTUS Klein, Stemmata Avium. — Brandt, Bullet, acad. Petersbg. 1869. 
Vn. 203. = Alca Lin. 
columbarius Klein, Prodr. Avium 146. — Alca alle Lin. 
impennis Brandt, Bullet, acad. Petersbg. 1869. VII. 203. = Alca impennis Lin. 
torda Klein, Stemmata Avium Tb. 38. = Alca torda Lin. 
PLECTOLOPHUS cornutus Bourjeot, Perr. 1838. Tb. 12. =z Platycercus cor- 
nutus ViG. 
PLECTORHAMPHUS Gray, List Genera Birds 1840. = Plectorhyncha Gould. 
PLECTORHYNCHA lanceolata Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837. V. 153. = Meli- 
threptus lanceolatus. 
Rostrum capite brevius, leviter arcuatum, fere conicum et acutum; naribus 
basalibus, operculo tectis, mandibula superiore obsolete ad apice indentata. Alae 
médiocres, remige primo brevissimo , tertio quartoque longissimis. Cauda medio- 
cris et aequalis. Tarsi validi; digito postico cum ungue forti, et digitum inter- 
medium anticum excellente; digitis lateralibus inaequalibus, externo longiore et 
intermedio basaliter conjuncto. 
PLECTROPHANES (Emberizinae. — TC^xtpov calcar) Meyer, Taschb. Vögel 
Deutschl. 1815. — Brehm, Vögel Deutschi. 301. = Emheriza Lin. 
Synon.: Centroplianes Kaup. 
Schnabel ammerartig, an der Schneide nur etwas eingezogen, mit kleinem 
Gaumenhöcker, die zwei ersten Schwingen die längsten, der mittellange Schwanz 
schwach ausgeschnitten. 
borealis Brehm, Vögel Deutschl. 307. — Emberiza nivalis Lin. 
calcaratus Meyer, Vögel Deutschl. IIL 57. = Emberiza lapponica Bonat. 
fringilloides Boie, Oken's Isis. — Fringilla nivalis Briss. 
groenlandicus Brehm, Vögel Deutschl. 307. — Emberiza lapponica Bonat. 
hiemalis Brehm, Vögel Deutschl. 304. = Emberiza nivalis Lin. 
lapponica Selley, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1826. XV. 156. = Emberiza lap- 
ponica Lin. 
Maccawnii Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York 1851. V. 122. = Emberiza 
Maccownii. 
melanomus Baird, Birds N America 436. — Emheriza melanomus. 
montanus Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 278. = Emberiza nivalis Lin. 
mustelinus Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 278. = Emberiza nivalis Lin. 
nivalis Meyer, Taschb. Vögel Deutschl. 1815. = Emberiza nivalis Lin. 
ornatus Townsend, Journ. acad. Philadelphia 1837. VII. 139. = Emberiza 
ornata Aud. 
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