352 PTEROCYCLUS. — PTEROGLOSSUS. 
maculirostris Gray, Genera Birds III. 617. = Anaf} versicolor Vieill. 
novae Hispaniae Gray, Genera Birds III. 617. = Anas cresca Lin. 
Rafflesi Baird, Salt lake Zool. 325. Anas cyanoptera Vieill. 
scapularis Brehm, Naumannia 1855. V. 298. — Anas querquedula Lin. 
PTEROCYCLUS (Crateropodinae. — TCxepov ala, xukXoç circus) Gray, Genera 
Birds 1846. I. 226. = Garrulax Less. 
Bill moderate and rather slender, with the culmei: gradually curved and the 
sides compressed to the tip which is slightly emarginated; the lateral margins 
nearly straight and the gonys moderate and ascending; the nostrils basal, with 
the opening large, lunate and partly covered by a membranous scale. Wings 
moderate and rounded, with the first six quills graduated and the sixth to the 
ninth the longest. Tail long and rounded on the sides. Tarsi longer than the 
middle toe, strong and covered in front with very broad scales. Toes long, the 
outer rather longer than the inner and united at its base; the hind toe very long 
and strong and armed with a long curved claw. 
affinis Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax affinis Hodgs. 
cachinnans Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. =z Garrulax cachinnans Blytii. 
chrysopterus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. — Garrulax chrysopterus Blyth. 
Delesserti Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. — Garrulax Delesserti Blytii. 
erythrocephalus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax erythro cep/mlus 
Blyth. 
Feliciae Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Leiothrix sirigula Blyth. 
imbricatus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. — Garrulax setafer Blyth. 
Jerdoni Gray, Handl. Birds L 283. = Garrulax Jerdoni Blyth. 
üneatus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax setafer Blyth. 
melanostigmus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax melanostigmus 
Blyth. 
merulinus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax merulinus Blyth. 
ruficapillus Gray, Genera Birds 1. 226. = Garrulax ruficapillus Blyth. 
rufifrons Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. — Garrulax rufifrons Blyth. 
setifer Gray, Genera Birds 1. 226. = Garrulax setafer Blyth. 
variegatus Gray, Genera Birds I. 226. = Garrulax variegatus Blytii. 
PTERODROMA (Procellariidae. — XTspov ala, Spopiaç currens) Bonaparte, Compt. 
rend. 1856. XLII. 768; Conspect. Avium II. 191. = Procellaria Lin. 
Rostrum brevissimum, curvum, valde compressum: cauda cuneata Nigrae. 
aterrima Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium II. 191. = Procellaria aterrima Verr. 
atlantica Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium II. 191. — Procellaria fuliginosa 
Banks. 
atlantica Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866. 94. = Procellaria fuliginosa Ba^ks. 
caribaea Carte, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866. 93. Tb. 11. = Procellaria caribaea 
Carte. 
fuliginosa Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLII. 768. = Procellaria fuligi- 
nosa Banks. 
macroptera Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium II. 191. = Procellaria macroptera 
Smith. 
PTEROGLOSSUS (Rhamphastidae. — TiTspov penna, yXoöaa lingua). — Illi- 
ger, Prodr. Syst. Mam. Avium 1811. 202. — Gould, Monogr. Rhamphastidae. 
London 1854. — Cassin, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1867. 108. — Gray, Ge- 
nera Birds II. 403. 
Synon.: Aracarius Rafin. — Aracari Less. — Selenidera, Aulacorhynchus, Aulaco- 
rhamphus, Andigena, Grammarhynchus , Beauharnaisius Gould. — Pyrosterna, Piperivorus, 
Rhamphomelus, Rhamphoxanthus, Grammatorhynchus Bonap. — Baillonius, Rhamphastoides 
Cass. — Aulacops Cab. 
Rostrum amplum, tenue, cultratum, basi margine incrassato; maxillae angulo 
frontali obtuso; tomia serrata; nares altiores et in maxillae basi positae; lingua 
mediocris, angusta, pennacea; alae concavae, breviores secundam staturam quam in 
genere Rhamphasto dicto; primariis quarta, quinta, sexta coaequalibus et longissi- 
