426 
RHINOPTILUS. — RHINORTHA. 
minor Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 411. = Irrisor minor Gray. 
Smithi Jardine, Zool. Journ. 1829. IV. 2. Tb. 1. = Irrisor cyanomelas 
Gray. 
unicolor Liciitenstein, Nomencl. Av. 66. = Irrisor cyanomelas Gray. 
RHINOPTILUS (Ciirsorinae. — piv naris, tctlXoç pennatus) Strickland, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1850. 220. ~ Cursorius Lath. 
Si/non. : Macrotarsus Blyth. 
bitorquatus Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 220. = Cursorius bitorquatus 
Jerd. 
bisignatiis Gray, Handl. Birds III. 19. = Cursorius bisignatus Hartl. 
chalcopterus Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1850. 220. Cursorius clialco- 
literus Tem. 
siiperciliaris v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1865. XIII. 98. = Cursorius chalco- 
pterus ÏEM. 
RHINOPTYNX (Strigidae) Kaup, Transact. Zool. Soc. 1862. IV. 239. — Bona- 
parte, Compt. rend. 1855. XLI. 1113. — Sundevall, Meth. Av. 104. = 
Otus Cuv. 
Bill long and projected. Wing short and obtuse. The first wing feather 
longer than the sixt to ninth. The first and second wingfeathers clearly emar- 
ginated. Toes feathered. 
Otus mexicanus Cuv., 0. madagascariensis Smith. 
RHINOPUS Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. =z Carpophaga Selb. 
RHINOSTraX Kaup, Oken's Isis 1848. 770. = Bhinoptynx Kaup. 
RHI^^ORTHA (Cuculidae. — pLV naris, op^oç rectus). — Vigors, Mem. Raffles 
1830. 671. — Cabanis, Mus. Heine. IV^ 58. — Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1873. 603. 
Sy7ion.: Bubutus Less. — Anadaenus, Anabaenus Swains. — Idiococcyx Boie. — Ana- 
doenus Blyth. — Anaboenus Agass. 
Bill long^ rather straight, with the culmen gradually sloping to the tip, which 
is suddendly curved, broad at the base and compressed on the sides; the nostrils 
basal, lateral, near the margin, longitudinal, linear. Wings short, rounded, with 
the sixth and seventh quills equal and longest. Tail long and graduated. Tarsi 
longer than the outer anterior toe^ and covered with broad scales. Toes moderate, 
the outer ones the longest; the claws moderate and slightly curved. — 1 Spec. 
chloropliaea Vigors, Mem. Raffles 670. — Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 
1842. XI. 924. •— Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859. 458. — Cabanis, Mus. 
Heine. IV^ 58. 
Cuculus chlorophaeus Raffles, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1826. XIII. '288. ? 
Phoenicophaeus chlorophaeus Vigors et Horsfield, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. 
Xm. 288. 
Phoenicophaeus caniceps Vigors et Horsfield. $ 
Bhinortha caniceps Vigors, Mem. Raffles 671. $ 
Cuculus sumatrensis Cuvier, Mus. paris. 
Bubutus ^uvauceli Lesson, Traité Ornith. 143. $ 
Bubutus Isidorei Lesson, Traité Ornith. 143; Voy. Belanger 234. Tb. 2. 
Coccyzus badius Gray, Zool. Miscell. 3. Tb. 9. ? 
Anadaenus rufescens Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 324. ? 
Anabaenus rufescens Swainson, two Centur. 346. $ 
Phoenicophaeus viridirostris, Ph. chlorocephalus Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1839. 
VIL 105. 
Cuculus chlorocephalus Raffles, fide Eyton. 
Bhinortha rufescens Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 913. 
Phoenicophaeus lucidus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1844. XIII. 390. 
Bhinortha lucida Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1845. XIV. 199. 
Bubutus Isidoria Lesson. 
Anadaenus ruficauda Peale, Unit. St. Expl. Exped. 144. $ 
Anadaenus rufus Swainson, fide Blyth. 
