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HETERORNIS. — HIANS. 
subitement et très comprimée, creusée intérieurement jusqu'à la moitié seulement 
de sa longueur, et, de là jusqu'à la pointe, cylindrique, très mince et très pointue; 
la mandibule inférieure beaucoup plus courte et plus épaisse qu'elle et n'atteignant 
que la moitié de sa longueur, creusé dans toute sa longueur, comme de coutume 
et recourbée comme la supérieur; pieds robustes; tarses, doigts et ongles allongés, 
le pouce et son ongle très forts, ailes courtes, à rémiges subobtuses; queue terminée 
carrément. 
olivaceus de Lafresnaye, Magaz. Zool. 1839. Ois. Tb. 10. = Drepanis lucida 
Gray. 
HETERORNIS nipalensis Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 183. = Pteru- 
thius nipalensis Hodgs. 
HETEROSCELUS (Totaninae. — srspo^ alter, ay.zkoç femur) Baird, Birds NAmerica 
1858. 734. = Totanns Bechst. 
Bill longer than the head or the tarsus, stout, much compressed. Commissure 
straight to near the tip , where it is gently decurved. The culmen is slightly con- 
cave about the middle. Nasal groove extending over the basal two thirds of the 
bill. Mouth moderately cleft; gap extending nearly the length of the nostrils be- 
hind the base of culmen. Legs short. Tarsus about equal the middle toe and 
about 27 2 times the length of exposed tibia; covered anteriorly by narrow trans- 
verse scutellae, laterally and behind by hexagonal scales. Scales of tibia hexa- 
gonal. Outer and middle toe connected by a basal web as far as the first joint 
of the latter; a rudimentary web to the inner toe. Hind toe long; one third the 
tarsus. Tail half the wings. Plumage perfectly uniform above, without spots or 
bands of any kind. 
brevipes Baird, Birds NAmerica 734. == Totanus incanus Viedll. 
incanus Gray, Handl. Birds III. 45. — Totanus incanus Vieill. 
HETEROSCENES (Cuculidae. — sTepoc alter, g>o]V7) nidus) Cabanis, Mus. Heine. 
1862. IV a . 26. = Cuculus Lin. 
Nur wegen abweichender Grösse, Färbung und Stimme von Cacomantis ab- 
getrennt. 
pallidus Cabanis, Mus. Heine. IV a . 26. = Cuculus pallidus Schleg. 
HETERURA (Alaudinae. — sxspoç alter, oupa cauda) Hodgson, Proceed. Zool. 
Soc. 1845. XIII. 33. 
Bill to gap equal to the head, to brow much less than the head; Anthine in 
the general character , but stronger, with the culmen; commissure and gonys more 
or less curved; base of the upper mandible a good deal cut out by the nareal fosse, 
and its tip inclined and notched; tomiae trenchant and scarped internally; nares 
avanced, lateral, oval, shaded above by a nude scale-like membrane; rictus to eye 
and sligthly bristled; wings very short, not surpassing the base of the tail, yet 
strictly Alaudine in all their details, with the prime ungradate , the tertials equal- 
to primes and all the centrals notched at the tips and emarginated on the outer 
web towards the tips as in the Alaudines; Î. quill equal to b., and both rather 
less than 2. 3. 4., which are equal and longest; tail ample, scansorial, that is, 
distinctly rigid, and the separate plumes acutely wedged; from of the tail Parian 
or slightly gradate from centre and from sides; legs and feet strong and typically 
ambulant, with high scutellate tarse and medial, compressed , full, solid toes, having 
the laterals equal, the central sufficiently long , and the hind least and not depressed, 
nails simple, slender, fully curved; hind long and nearly equal to the digit. 
sylvana Hodgson, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1845. XIII. 33. — Blyth, Journ. as. 
Soc. Bengal 1845. XIV. 556. . [Nepal. 
Cynclorhamphus sylvanus Jardine, Contrib. Ornith. 1848. Tb. 
Cincloramphus sylvanus Gray, Genera Birds I. 168. 
HEXANEMUS Gray, Handl. Birds III. 150. Register. 
HIANS (Ardeidae) Lacépede. Lesson, Manuel Ornith. II. 252. = Anastomus Bonat. 
asiaticus Lesson, Man. Ornith. II. 252. = Anastomus pondicerianus Cab. 
capensis Lesson, Man. Ornith. II. 252. = Anastomus lamelligerus Tem. 
lamelligerus Cuvier, Mus. paris. =■ Anastomus lamelligerus Tem. 
