PLUVIANELLUS. — PNIGOHIERAX. 
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sur les côtés ou égale, variée de nombreuses bandes transversales; tarses assez 
élevés, minces, couverts sur toutes les faces d'un réseau de plaques hexagones; 
très fines sur les côtés et en arrière, un peu plus larges sur la face antérieure; 
trois doigts en avant; pouce nue ou très rudimentaire; plumages des parties su- 
périeures varié de nombreuses taches. 
apricarius Bonaparte, Uccel. Eur. 57. = Charadrius apricarius Lin. 
aurea Brisson, Ornith. V. 42. = Charadrius apricarius Lin. 
dominicensis Brisson, Ornith. V. 48. = Charadrius fulvus Gmel. 
fulvus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. = Charadrius fulvus GxMEL. 
longipes Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. =z Charadrius fulvus 
Gmelin. 
squatarola Macgillivray , brit. Birds II. 86. = Charadrius varius Nrrzscii. 
tailensis Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. = Charadrius fulvus Gmel. 
varius Degland, Ornith. Eur. IL 127. = Charadrius varius Nitzscii. 
virginicus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. = Charadrius fulvus 
Gmelin. 
viridis Willugiiby, Ornith. 229. = Charadrius apricarius Lin. 
torquata Brisson, Ornith. V. 60. = Charadrius hiaticula Lin. 
xanthochilus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. = Charadrius asia- 
ticus Fall. 
PLUVIANELLUS socialis Hombron et Jacquemont, Voy. Pol Sud. Tb. 30. Fig. 1. 
— Gray, Genera Birds III. 549. = Strepsilus socialis. 
Bill small, with the base rather depressed, and the apical half slightly 
vaulted, and arched to the tip, which is acute; the gonys half the length of the 
lower mandible and ascending; the nostrils lateral and placed in a membranous 
groove that extends for half the length of the bill, with the opening linear and 
longitudinal. Wings very long and pointed, with the first quill the longest. Tail 
moderate and slightly rounded. Tarsi much shorter than the middle toe and 
covered in front with transverse scales and on the sides with reticulated scales. 
Toes long, with the outer toe longer than the inner, both free at the base, and 
the sides of the fore toes slightly margined by a membrane; the hind toe rather 
short and elevated. 
PLUVIANUS (Charadriidae) Vieillot, Analyse 1816. 55. — Gray, Genera Birds 
1844. III. 536. = Cursorius Lath. 
Synon.: Hyas Glog. — Ammoptila Swains. — Clieilodromas Rüpp. 
Bec épais à la base, comprimé vers le milieu, pointu; mandibule supérieure 
fléchie en arc. Doigts grêles. 
aegyptius Gray, Genera Birds, III. 536. = Cursorius aegyptius Sciileg. 
chlorocephalus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. = Cursorius aegyptius Sciileg. 
cinereus Blytii, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XL 587. — Lobivanellus cinereus 
Blyth. 
coronatus Stephens, gener. Zool. XL 488. — Charadrius coronatus Gmel. 
melanocephalus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. = Cursorius aegyptius Schleg. 
PLUVIORHYNCHUS Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLlïl. 417. Chara- 
drius Lin. 
mongolus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 417. = Charadrius mon- 
golicus Pall. 
obscurus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIIL 417. = Charadrius ohscurus 
Gmel. 
PLYCTOLOPHUS Vieillot, Analyse 1816. 26. = Plictolophus Vig. 
PNIGOCICHLA (Pachycephalinae. — Tcvtys« trucidare, xl^^ turdus) Cabanis, Mus. 
Heine. 1851. I. 66. — Collurio cincta Vig. 
harmonica Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 66. = Collurio cincla harmonica Gould. 
PNIGOHIERAX (Falconidae. — TrvtysM trucidare, ispaÇ falco) Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 
1872. XX, 156. = Falco Lin. 
jugger Cabanis, a. a. O. = Falco jugger Gray. 
lanarius Cabanis, a. a. O. = Falco lanarius Lin. 
