SCISSTROSTRUM. — SCOLECOPHAGUS. 
463 
caeruleata Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1857. IX. 54. = Myiagra coeru- 
leata Tem. 
SCISSIROSTRUM (Buphaginae) de Lafresnaye, Magaz. Zool. 1845. Ois. Tb. 45. 
Synon.: Sissirostrum Gray. 
Rostrum forte, altum, culmine pauce compresso ^ elevato, ohtuso, a fronte ad 
apicem aeque curvato, apice non adunco; maxilla basi lata, parum tumida, post 
nares tantum compressa; naribus in scissura sulci formi, elongata, oblique arcuata, 
apertis; sp at io infra nares tumido ; mandibula basi alta ad latera recte descendente; 
alls mediocribus y remigibus duabus primis aequalibus et longissimus , tertia et quarta 
bremoribus , gradatis; cauda mediocri, gracili, acuminata, rectricibus angustis valde 
gradatis; tarsis brevibus sed robustissimis ; digitis et unguibus validis, his et prae- 
cipue postico fortibus valde arcuatis, compressis. 
duhium [Celebes. 
Lanius dubius Latham, Ind. Ornith. 18. 
Pagei de Lafresnaye, Magaz. Zool. 1845. Tb. 59. 
SCLEROPTERA Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLII. 882. — Francolinus Briss. 
Specc: Francolinus Levaillanti, afer, Erkeli, gariepensis, concentrica, adpersa> 
SCLEROPTILA Blyth, Catal. Birds as. Soc. 1849. 250. Francolinus Briss. 
Specc. : Francolinus Levaillanti , Fr. afra. 
SCLERÜRUS (Anabatidae. — axXnjpo«; rigidus, oupa cauda). — Swainson, Zool. 
Journ. 1827. III. 356. 
Synon.: Tinactor Pz. Wied. — Oxypyga Ménétr. — Scelurus Burm. 
Rostrum, subelongatum vel longiusculum , emarginatum^ obtusum; culmine versus 
apicem leviter arcuato. Alae médiocres rotundatae; remigibus prima et secunda 
gradatis, tertia quarta quinta aequalibus, longissimis. Cauda lata^ rigida^ rotun- 
data. Pedes graciles^ breves, digito exteriore prima phalange tenus medio conjuncto, 
interiore ad basin connexo , halluce gracili, subcurvato, leviter emarginato. — 
4 Specc, 
albigularis Swainson, Birds Braz. Tb. 87. — Sclerurus caudacutus Gray. 
caudacutiis Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. [Guiana. Brasilia. 
Thamnophilus caudacutus Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 742. 
Myiothera umbretta Liciitenstein, Verz. Doubl. 43. 
Tinactor fuscus Pz. Wied, Beitr. Natg. Bras. III. 1106. 
Myioturdus umbretta Ménétriés, Mém. acad. Petersbg. 1835. 
Oxypyga scansor Ménétriés, Mém. acad. Petersbg. 1835. 
Sclerurus albogularis Swainson, Birds Braz. Tb. 87. 
Myiothera caudacuta de Lafresnaye, Magaz. Zool. Ois. 1838. Tb. 10. 
Formicarius umbrettus Gray, Genera Birds I. 211. 
Sclerurus caudacutus Burmeister, Uebers. Th. Bras. III. 45. 
guatimaleiisis Gray, Genera Birds I. 211. — Sclater, Ibis 1859. I. 118; 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 354. [America centr. 
Tinactor guatemalensis Hartlaub, Revue Zool. 1844. 370. 
Sclerurus caudacutus, Scl. mexicanus Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York VII. 
320. 465. — Sclater, Catal. Collect. SAmer. Birds Tb. 12. 
mexicanus Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York VII. 465. = Sclerurus guatemalensis 
Gray. 
livascens Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1873. 67. [Peruvia occid. 
ruficollis Swainson, Birds Braz. II. Tb. 79. Sclerurus guatemalensis Gray. 
afigularis v. Pelzeln, Ornith. Bras. 161. [Brasilia. 
umbretta Gray, Handl. Birds I. 167. = Sclerurus caudacutus Gray. 
SCOLECOPHAGUS (Icteridae. — axoX'/]X09aY0(; vermes edere), — Swain- 
son, Fauna bor. amer. 1831. 494. — Gray, Genera Birds 1845. H. 340. 
Synon.: Euphagus, Idiopsar, Dives Cass. — Potaraopsar Sclat. 
Bill moderate, straight and slender, the sides compressed and the lateral 
margins inflexed but not sinuated; the nostrils basal, lateral and partly covered 
by a membrane. Wings moderate and pointed, with the first quill shorter than 
the second, third and fourth, which are the longest. Tail moderate, flat and 
