SERISOMÜS. - SERPENTARIUS. 
481 
Pyrrhula pusilla Degland, Ornith. Eur. 1849. I. 194. 
Oraegithus pusillus Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1854. Extraheft Tf. 1. 
Metoponia pusilla Bonaparte, Catal. Parzudaki 3. 
striolatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. I. 522. = Crithagra striolata Gray. 
sulphuratus Boie, Oken's Isis 1822. = Crithagra sulphurata Swains. 
syriacns Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 163. [Africa or. sept. 
Fringilla syriaca Ehrenberg, Mus. berol. 
Crithagra syriaca Gray, Handl. Birds II. 100. 
tristriata Rüppell, Wirbeith. Faun. Abyss. 97. Tf. 35. Fig. 2. [Abyssinia. 
Dryospiza tristriata v. Heuglin, syst. Üebers. NOAfr. 
Poliospiza tristriata Bonaparte, Consp. Av. I. 519. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. 
NOAfr. 642. 
Fringilla tristriata v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1868. 91. 
Passer tristriatus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1855. 257. 
xanthopygia Rüppell, Wirbeith. Fauna Abyss. 96, Tf. 35. Fig. 1. 
\Abyssinia. 
Dryospiza xanthopygia v. Heuglin, syst. Uebers. NOAfr. 
Poliospiza xanthopygia Bonaparte, Consp. Av. I. 520. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. 
NOAfr. 641. 
Carpodacus uropygialis Lichtenstein, Nomencl. 48. 
Fringilla xanthopygia Lefebvre, Abyssin. Ois. 174. 
SERISOMUS (Cuculidae. — aïjpixoç sericeus, ao[J.a corpus) Swainson, Classif. 
Birds 1837. II. 323. = Sericosomus Sundev. 
Bill short, strong; the gonys thick, ascending and angulated; the culmen 
thickened and arched. Tarsus and middle toe equal; lateral toes unequal; 
claws short, 
Omnes species vide Sericosomus. 
SEHOIOPHUS Agassiz, Ind. gen. Nomencl. 1844. = Serilophus Swains. 
8ERPE1VTARIIIS (Serpentariidae). — Cuvier (1798), Règne anim. I. 338. 
— Layard, Birds SAfr. 32. 
Synon.: Sagittarius Vosm. — Secretarius Dum. — Gypogeranus Illig. — Ophio- 
theres Vieill. 
Bill moderate, broad and elevated at its base, the culmen much arched to 
the tip, which is hooked and the side much compressed; the nostrils lateral, with 
the opening large and oblique. Wings long , with the third, fourth and fifth quills 
nearly equal and longest; armed on the shoulder with an obtuse spur. Tail very 
long, wedge shaped, with the two middle feathers prolonged. Tarsi much leng- 
thened ^ slender^ covered in front with transverse scales. Toes very short, with 
the anterior ones united at their base by a membrane; the hind toe remarkably 
short, and rather elevated and all covered above with transverse scale. The lores 
and space round the eyes naked. — 2 Specc. 
reptilivorus Daudin, Traité Ornith. II. 29. Tb. 11. — Layard, Birds SAfr. 
33. [Africa merid. 
Sagittarius Vosmaer, Monogr. Tb. 8. 
Otis secretarius Scopoli, Sonner. Voy. Tb. 50. 
Falco serpentarius Gmelin, Syst. Nat. — Levaillant, Ois. Afr. Tb. 25. — 
BuFFON, PI. enlum. 721. 
Serpentarius africana Shaw, gener. Zool. VII. 46. Tb. 14. 
Vultur serpentarius Latham, Ind. Ornith. Tb. 2. 
Ophiotheres cristatus Vieillot, Galerie Ois. Tb. 260. 
Gypogeranus secretarius Illiger, Prodr. 235. 
Gypogeranus africanus Smith, Ilustr. SAfr. Zool. 
Serpentarius secretarius Gray, Genera Birds I. 
Gypogeranus capensis, G.gambensis^ G. philippensis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1835. 103. 
Astur secretarius Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Astur. 28. 
GiEBEii, Thesaurus. III. 
