POTAMODUS. — PRATINCOLA. 
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tabueusis Gould, Handb. Birds Australia II. 341. [Australia. Oceania. 
Balkis tabuensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 717. — Vieillot, Encycl. métli. 1067. 
Rallus minutus Forster, Descr. anim. 178. 
Creœ plumhea Gray, Griff, anim. kingd. III. 410. 
Gallinula immaculata Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 358. 
Porzana immaculata Gould, Birds Australia YI. Tb. 82. = Schlegel, Mus. 
Fays-Bas Ralli 36. 
Zapornia spilonota Peale, Unit. St.-Explor. Exped. 1848. 224. — Gould, 
Voy. Beagle III. 132. ïb. 49. 
Corethrura tabuensis Gray, Genera Birds III. 595. 
Ortygometra plumbea Gray, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Rallidae 120. 
Ortygometra tabuensis Gray, Erebus Terror Birds 12. — Hartlaub et Finscii, 
Fauna Centralpolyn. 167. 
Porzana vitiensis Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1854. II. 169. 
Zapornia umbrina Cassin, Froc. acad. Philadelphia 1856. VIII. 254. 
Zapornia tabuensis Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 3 856. XLIII. 599. 
Zapornia umbrata Hartlaub, Wiegm. Arch. 1858. 29. 
Rallus minor Ellman, Zoologist 1861. 7470. 
Porzana spilonota Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868. 456. 
Creciscus spilonotus Gray, Handl. Birds III. 61. 
Meho tatai. — Totoriwai. — Seou. — Nohur. — Warra jah. — Little Swamp lien. 
tahitiensis Latham, Ind. Ornith. — ? 
vitiensis Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1854. II. 169. — Por^awö! tabuensis G om.D. 
POTAMODUS Kaup, Entwickl. Thierw. 1829. = Calamodyta fluviatilis Gray. 
POTAMOPSAR minor Sclater, Catal. Collect. 141. — Scolecophagus minor 
Swains. 
PRAEDATHIX (Laridae) Vieillot, Analyse 1816. 65. = Lestris Illig. 
Bee médiocre, un peu robuste, couvert à la base d'une membrane prolongée 
jusqu'aux narines, presque rond, entier, mandibule supérieure articulée, crochue 
vers le bout, inférieure arrondie à la pointe. Pouce lisse. 
Typus: Labe Buff. 
PRASITIS (Hylocharinae. — kçoloitlç prasinus) Cabanis, Mus. Heine. 1860. III. 
49. = Hylocharis Boie. 
Durch den runden Schwanz von den gabelschwänzigen Verwandten unter- 
schieden. 
phaeopyga Cabanis, Mus. Heine. III. 49. :±=. Polytmus phaeopygus Gray. 
prasina Cabanis, Mus. Heine. III. 49. = Hylocharis prasina Gray. 
PRATICOLA (Malurinae) Swainson,- Classif. Birds 1837. II. 243. — Malurus. 
Aspect of Anthus. Culmen not depressed before the nostrils. The upper 
mandible notched; the mai-gins not inflexed. Frontal feathers rigid and semiseta- 
ceous. Wings very short and rounded; the two first quills equally graduated; the 
five next of equal length and longest. Tail moderate, graduated; the feathers 
broad, the tips oval. Legs very large and strong. Tarsus and middle toe equal; 
hinder toe and claw rather shorter; lateral toes equal. Claws slender and but 
slightly curved; hinder claw large and as long as its toe. 
anthoides Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 244. = Malurus fuliginosus. 
PRATICOLA Kaup, 1829. = Pratincola Kocii. 
PRATII^ÎCOLA (Saxicolinae). — Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. 1816. L 191. — 
Gray, Genera Birds I. 179. — Degland, Ornith. Eur. I. 460. 
Sijnon.: Curuca Leach. — Praticola Kaup. — Fruticola Macgill. — Rubetra Gray. 
Bee plus court que la tête, large à la base^ qui est garni de quelques poils 
roides; échancré et courbé seulement à la pointe] narines arrondies^ en partie cachées 
par les plumes du front; ailes longues, surobtuses; queue mediocre; tarses comme 
dans le genre Saxicola; plumage en dessus varié de taches longitudinales. — 
14 Specc. 
abyssinica Blanford, Zool. Soc. London 1865. = Pratincola semitorquata 
Heugl. 
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