POLIOPTILA. — POLTOSPIZA. 
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picta Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. — Spec, dubia. 
POLIOPTILA (Paridae). — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 11. — Baird, Birds 
NAmerica 379. 
Bill slender, attenuated , but depressed at the base; nearly as long as the head, 
distinctly notched at the tip and provided with moderate rictal bristles. Nostrils 
rather elongated, not concealed^ but anterior to the frontal feathers. Tarsi longer 
than the middle toe, distinctly scutellate ; the toes small; the hinder one scarcely 
longer than the lateral; its claw scarcely longer than the middle. Outer lateral 
toe longer than the inner. First primary about 07ie third the longest; second equal 
to the seventh. Tail a little longer than the wings moderately graduated; the 
feathers rounded. — 6 Specc. 
albiloris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860. 298. — Baird, Review americ. 
Birds 70. [Guatemala. 
biliueata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 12. — Baird, Review americ. Birds 
72. [Cartagena, 
Sylvia biliueata Lichtenstein, Mus. berol. 
Culicivora biliueata Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 316. 
boliviana Gray, Handl. Birds I. 237. = Culicivora dumicola d'Orb. 
BulToni Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861. 127. — Baird, Rev. amer. Birds 70. 
[Guiana. Nova Granada, 
Motacilla coerulea var. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 992. 
Polioptila leucogastra Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 12. 
coerulea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 11. = Culicivora coerulea Swains. 
dumicola Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 12. = Culicivora dumicola d'Orb. 
Lembeyi Gundlach, Journ. Ornith. 1872. 410. = Culicivora Lembeyi Lawr. 
leucogastra Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 12. = Polioptila Buffoni^ Culi- 
civora coerulea, C. dumicola. 
iiielauura Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York 1856. VL 168. — Baird, Birds 
NAmerica 382; Revue amer. Birds 68. [Mexico. Texas. California. 
Culicivora atricapilla Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York V. 124. 
Culicivora mexicana Cassin, Birds Californ. 163. 
Polioptila mexicana Sclater, Ibis 1859. I. 9. 
mexicana Sclater, Ibis 1859. I. 9. = Polioptila melanura Lawr. 
nigriceps Baird, Review amer. Birds 69. [Mazatlan. 
plumbea Baird, Birds NAmerica 382. = Culicivora plumbea Baird. 
plumbiceps Lawrence, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1865. 37. — Venezuela. 
supercilîaris Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York 1861. VII. 304. — Baird, 
Review amer. Birds 71. [Panama, 
POLIORNIS Kaup, Oken's Isis 1847. 265. = Buteo Cuv. 
Die Tarsen mit groben Schildschuppen, die Zehen mit 3 bis 10 Tafeln be- 
legt, die Flügel fast das Schwanzende erreichend. 
barbatus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 15. ^ Buteo teesa Gray. 
fasciatus Hay, Madras Journ. XIIL 146. = Buteo teesa Gray. 
indicus Gray, lUustr. Ind. Zool. = Buteo poliogenys Less. 
liventer Kaup, Oken's Isis 1847. 267. — Buteo liventer Cuv. 
poliogenys Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 18. = Buteo poliogenys Less. 
pyrrhogenys Blytii, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal. = Buteo poliogenys Less. 
rufipennis Sundevall, Oefvers. vet. Förhdl. 1850. 131. = Buteo rufipennis 
Strickl. 
teesa Gray, Genera Birds I. 12. = Buteo teesa Gray. 
POLIOSPIZA (Fringillidae) Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium 1850. L 519. = Frin- 
gilla LiN. 
Synon.: Tephrospiza Reichb. 
Ptilosa laxa. 
angolensis Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 150. = Friugilla angolensis Gmel. 
atrogularis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 520. = Friugilla angolensis Gmel. 
canicapilla Dubus, Bullet, acad. Druxelles 1855. XXIP. 151. — Senegal. 
