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HETEROPHASIA (Liotrichidae) Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XL 186. = 
Actinodura Gould. 
Synon.: Sibia Hodgs. 
Bill longer than the head, slender, tapering, a little incurved, its base as 
high as broad and gradually more compressed for the basal three fourths; the ridge 
of the upper mandible distinct to beyond the nostrils, then rather less so, and 
its tip very slightly if at all emarginated; nostrils somewhat large, and almost 
closed by impending membrane, the naral orifices appearing as mere fissures on 
the inferior margin of this, though more apart anteriorly, a few small setae at 
the gape. Tarse somewhat longer than the middle toe and the claws compressed 
and suited for perching. Wings long, rounded, having^the 5. or 6. primary longest, 
and the 7. equal to the 4. Tail broad and very much lengthened and graduated. 
The plumage throughout is soft, dense, smooth; the wings and tail tolerably firm, 
cuculopsis Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 187. == Actinodura picaoi- 
des Blyth. 
HETEROPODA (Scolopacidae. — srepoç alter, kqvç pes) Nuttall, Man. Ornith. 
1834. H. 135. = Tringa Lin. 
Synon.: Hemipalama Bonap. 
Biil as long as the head, straight, slender, the sides compressed and tapering 
towards the tips, the culmen straight and broad, and flattened near the apex; the 
nostrils lateral, basal and placed in a narrow groove. Wings long and pointed, 
with the first quill the longest. Tail rather short, with the middle feathers longer 
than the lateral, which are a little longer than the intermediate ones. Tarsi 
moderate, slender and compressed. Toes rather long, slender; the lateral toes 
unequal, and united at their base by a web, which extends between the outer 
and middle toe to the second joint, but all are margined to the extremity; the 
claws small, compressed and rather arched. 
Mauri Bonaparte, Compar. List Birds Eur. Amer. = Tringa Cabanisi Lichtst. 
semipalmata Nuttall, Man. Ornith. II. 135. = Tringa pusilla Lin. 
HETEROPS cristata Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 84. = Alauda cristata Lin. 
HETEROPUS (Aquilinae. — srepoç alter, tcouç pes) Hodgson, Journ. as. Soc. 
Bengal 1843. XII. 127. = Aquila Briss. 
Synon.: Neopus Hodgs. 
Bill and head small and undepressed, aquilomilvine. Figure slender, with 
very ample wings and tail, the former rather exceeding the latter; their gradation 
aquiline, having the greatest quills incurved. Tarsi short and plumed. Toes 
nervous, unequal, the inner and hind highly developed, the inner being nearly 
as long as the central and stouter , the outer being much the shortest and feeblest ; 
talons very acute and inequal but not highly curved. 
Gurneyi Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860. 342. Tb. 159. = Aquila Gurneyi 
SCHLEG. 
malayensis Gray, Handl. Birds I. 11. === Aquila malayensis Gray. 
pernigra Hodgson, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1836. IV. 217; 1843. XII. 127. = 
Aquila malayensis Gray. 
HETEROPYGEA (Subgen. Tringae) Coues, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1861. 190. 
= Tringa Lin. 
Jugulum without an ashy or brownish suffusion. Upper tail coverts white. 
Specc: Tringa Bonapartei Schleg., Tr. maculata Vieill. 
HETERORHINA Baird, Review amer. Birds 1864. 117. a= Cyphorhinus Cab. 
Synon.: Henicorhina Sclat. 
leucophrys Baird, Review amer. Birds 118.= Cyphorhinus leucophrys Sclat. 
leucostictus Baird, Review amer. Birds 117. = Cyphorhinus leucostictus Cab. 
prostheleuca Baird, Review amer. Birds 117.= Cyphorhinus leucostictus Cab. 
HETERORHYNCHUS (Dacnididae.— srspoç alter, çvyioç rostrum) de Lafresnaye, 
Magaz. Zool. 1839. Tb. 10. = Drepanis Tem. 
Synon.: Hemignathus Lichtst. 
Bee allonge, très arqué, formant exactement un quart de cercle; mandibule 
supérieure un peu élargie à sa base et retombant *sur l'inférieur, puis rétrécie 
