POLYSTICTUS. — POLYTMÜS. 
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POLYSTICTUS Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. = Euscarthmus Pz. Wied. 
POLYTELIS ( Psittacidae. — tuoXutsXtjç exquisitus) Wagler, Monogr. Psittac. 
1832. 489. = PlaUjcercus Vig. 
Character generis Palaeornis; pedes elevati, graciles, tarso tereti. 
Alexandrae Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863. 232. = Platycercus Alexandrae 
FiNSCH. 
Barrabandi Wagler, Monogr. Psitt. 519. = Platycercus Barrabandi Finsch. 
melanura Gould, Birds Australia V. Tb. 16. = Platycercus melanuru Gray. 
POLYTMIJS (Trochilidae). — Brisson, Ornith. 1766. — Gray, Genera Birds 
I. 107. 
Synon.: Campylopterus , Lampornis Swains. — Kampylopterus, Colibri Spix. — An- 
thracothorax, Glaucis, Smaragdites , Eulampis, Mellisuga Boie. — Emeraudes, Coulampis, 
Glaucopes, Chrysures, Amazilis (Amazilia, Amazilius, Amazillia, Amazilis) Lesson. — Peta- 
sophora Gray. — Androdon, Taeniopterus, Aphantochroa, Phaeochroa, Eupetomena, ïhre- 
netes, Sternoclytha, Hypuroptila, Schistes, Urochroa, Thalurania, Hemithylaca, Erythronota, 
Eupherusa, Hemistilbon Gould. — Platystylopterus, Saepiopterus, Pampa, Chalybura, Urano- 
mitra, Progrornis, Lericotes, Lepidopyga, Hypophania, Margarochrysis , Floresia, Phaxilla, 
ïelesiella, Leucochloris, Argyrtria, Cyanochloris Reichb. — Chrysobronchus, Anais, Delphi- 
nella, ïhaumatias, Leucippas, Doleromyia, Saucerottia, Chrysuronia, Cyanomyia, Avocettinus 
Bonap. — Thalucania Bourc. — Tholucania Hartl. — Loxopterus, Sphenoproctus, Agapeta, 
Telesilla, Dolerisca, Chrysurisca, Pyrrhophaena, Opisthoprora Cab. — Eranna, Eratina, 
Heine. — Elvira, Lencolia, Emilia, Chlorolampis, Epherusa, Arania Muls. 
Bill more or less long, slender and curved,, with the culmen slightly keeled 
at the base and then rounded to the tip, winch is acute; the base broad; the 
frontal plumes projecting partly over the nostrils; the lateral margine dilated over 
the lower mandible; the nostrils basal, ivith the ojyening covered by a large prom- 
inent scale. Wings generally long and pointed, with the first quill the longest; 
sometimes the first three guilts are enlarged near their base. Tail generally long, 
broad and mostly rounded. Tarsi very short, slender and j^^ftly clothed loith plu- 
mes. Toes rather long, very slender, the inner toe rather longer than the outer, 
both united at their base, especially the latter; the hind toe long and furnished 
with a moderate curved claw. — 150 Specc. 
aeneicauda [ Venezuela. 
Chalybura aeneicauda Lawrence, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1865. 38. 
aeiieus [Respubl. aequat. 
Glaucis aenea Lawrence, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1868. 232. — Gould, 
Monogr. Trochil. I. Tb. 7. 
aeifuatorialis [Eespubl. aequat. 
Campylopterus aequatorialis Gould, Introd. Monogr. Trochil. 47. 
Campylopterus latipennis Mulsant et Verreaux. 
aequatorialis Supra I. 366. = Polytmus Gouldi. 
affiiiis [Brasilia merid. 
Agyrtria affinis Cabanis, Mus. Heine. IIL 33. 
Thaumatias affinis Gould, Monogr. Trochil. V. Tb. 299. 
affinis Supra II. 260. = Polytmus Lawrencei. 
Aglajae Gray, Genera Birds L 109. Polytmus iodurus. 
alhicoUis Gray, Genera Birds L 108. [Brasilia. 
Trochilus albicollis Vieillot, nouv. Diet. hist. nat. XXXIII. 426. — Tem- 
minck, pi. color. 203. Fig. 1. 
Ornismya albicollis Lesson, Ois. mouches Tb. 63. 
Colibri albigularis Spix, Aves Brasil. Tb. 82. Fig. 1. 
Thaumatias albicollis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 78. 
Leucochloris albicollis Reichenbach, Trochil. Enum. 8. 
Laiochloris albicollis Gould, Monogr. Trochil. V. Tb. 291. 
Agyrtria albicollis Cabanis, Mus. Heine. IH. 32. 
albigalaris [Respubl. aequat. 
Schistes albigularis Gould, Monogr. Trochil. IV. Tb. 220; Contrib. Ornith. 
1851. 140. 
Petasophora albigularis Reichenbach, Enumer. Trochil. 11. 
