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wenig nackten Fusse haben auch hinten ziemlich lange Nagel und etwas ausge- 
schnittene warzige Schwimmhäute. Die Flügel ragen weit über die Gabel des 
Schwanzes hinaus; die erste Schwinge die längste. 
Species Brehmi cf. Sterna caspia Lin. 
Species Boiei cf. Sterna nomina eadem. 
SYLPHIDOENA Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. = Ptilopus perlatus Wall. 
SYLPHITRERON perlatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. II. 40. Ptilopus perlatus Wagl. 
SYLVANIA Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. 136. = Calamodyta phoeni- 
curoides. 
General caracters of Callene, but the bill much slender as and straighter, 
resembling that of Calliope. 
SYLVIA. (Sylviadae. — sylva). — Latham, Ind. Ornith. 1790. — Gray, Genera 
Birds 1848. L 173. 
Synon.: Asilus Möhr. — Fidecula Briss. — Melizophilus Leach. — Ciirruca Koch. — 
Phylloscopus Boie. — Thamnodiis, Erythroleuca, Monachus, Epilais, Adophoneus , Alsoecus 
Kaup. — Philacantha Glog. — Sterparola, Staparola, Pyrophthalma, Nisoria Bonap. — Psori- 
dus Raf. — Adyphomus Bias. 
Bill more or less long, rather strong and straight, with the culmen gradually 
curved and the sides compressed to the tip, which is scarcely emarginated; the 
gonys long and ascending; the gap furnished with a few short weak bristles; the 
nostrils basal and placed in a short broad groove with the opening exposed and 
sublunate. Wings moderate with the first quill very short and the second shorter 
than the third, or third and fourth, which are the longest. Tail moderate, broad 
and rounded on the sides. Tarsi rather shorter than or as long as, the middle 
toe, and rather strong and covered in front with broad scales. Toes moderate 
with the inner toe shorter than the outer one; the latter united at its base; the 
hind toe long and armed with a long strong claw. — 18 Specc. 
abietina Nilsson, Vet. akad. Handl. 1819. 103. = Phyllopseuste rw/a Brehm. 
aedonia Vieillot, Encycl. méth. = Sylvia hortensis Lath. 
aequinoctialis Vieillot, Ois. Amer. sept. Tb. 81. 
aestiva Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 551. = Mniotüta aestiva Gray. 
affinis Hardy, Ann. soc. Normandie 1841. = Calamodyta arundinacea Gray. 
africana Shaw, Nat. Miscell. X. Tb. 615. = Drymoeca africana Gray. 
agilis Wilson, amer. Ornith. V. 64. = Sylvicola agilis Jard. 
agricola Jerdon, Madr. Journ. 1844. XIII. 131. — Calamodyta palustris 
Gray. 
akahige Temminck, PI. color. 571. = Erythacus. akahige Gray. 
albicoUis Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 535. = Mniotilta aestiva Gray. 
albifrons Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 497. — Pipilo albifrons. 
ambigua Schlegel, krit. Uebersicht. = Calamodyta elaica Gray. 
americana Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 520. = Mniotilta americana Gray. 
angusticauda Malherbe, Revue Zool. 1843. 78. = Phyllopseuste rufa Brehm. 
angusticauda Gerbe, Faune de l'Aube 139. = Phyllopseuste trochilus Brehm. 
annulosa Swainson, Zool. Illustr. 161. — Zoster ops madagascariensis Gray. 
anthoides Vieillot, Diet. hist. nat. XI. 208. = Henicocichla noveboracensis Cab. 
anthophila Boie, Oken's Isis. = Parus minutus. 
apicalis Lichtenstein. — Drymoeca apicalis Lay. 
aquatica Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 510. = Calamodyta aquatica Gray. 
arctica Audubon, ornith. Biogr. V. 38. = Sialia arciica Swains. 
argyrotis Bonaparte, Consp. Av. = Setophaga rubra Swains. 
arundinacea Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 510. = Calamodyta arundinacea Gray. 
arundinacea Lewin, Birds New Holl. Tb. 18. = Calamodyta australis Gray. 
arundinacea Hodgson. = Calamodyta dumetorum Gray. 
assimilis Brehm, Naumannia 1855. 283. 
atrata Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 514. := Euticilla rufiventris Cab. 
atricapilla Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 500. — Naumann, Natg. Vögel Deutschi. 
IL 492. Tf. 77. [Europa. Africa sept. 
