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HOPLOXYPTERUS. — HOEORNIS. 
Bill moderate and slender with the basal portion of the eulmen depressed 
and the tip vaulted, the sides compressed and grooved; the nostrils lateral, basal*, 
and placed in the upper lateral groove, which extends for two thirds the length 
of the bill, with the opening linear. Wings long and pointed, with the first quill 
nearly as long as the second and third, which are equal and longest. Tail moderate, 
broad and even. Tarsi much longer than the middle toe and covered in front 
with larger scales which are more or less divided in the middle. Toes three, more 
or less long and slender; with the outer toe longer than the inner; the hind toe 
wanting; the claws small, compressed and slightly curved; the front of the 
head sometimes more or less lobed and the wings sometimes armed with an acute 
spine or blunt tubercle. 
albiceps Gurney, Ibis 1868. IV. 255. = Charadrius albiceps Tem. 
armatus Jardine, Illustr. Ornith. Tb. 54. = Charadrius albiceps Tem. 
cayanus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. — Charadrius cayanus Lath. 
coronatus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Charadrius coronatus Gmel. 
inornatus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Charadrius Geoffroy i Wagl. 
malabaricus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. re Lobivanellus bilobus Schleg. 
myops Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Lobivanellus bilobus Schleg. 
persicus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Vanellus spinosus. 
raficollis Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. — Charadrius ruficollis Wagl. 
speciosus Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Charadrius albiceps Tem. 
spinosus Bonaparte, Birds Europe 46. = Vanellus spinosus. 
Spixi Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. — Vanellus Spivi Gray. 
tectns Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. == Lobivanellus pileatus. 
tricolor Gray, Genera Birds III. 542. = Lobivanellus pectoralis Schleg. 
ventralis Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 418. = Vanellus spinosus. 
H0PL0XYPTERUS cayanus Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLIII. 418. = Chara- 
drius cayanus Lath. 
HOREITES (Sylviadae) Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 82; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 
XHI. 30. = Drymoeca Swains. 
Synon.: Nivicola Hodgs. 
Bill shorter than the head, quite straight, cylindric, feeble, distinctly notched; 
nares basal, ovoid, covered with a membranous scale; legs and feet stronger than 
in either subgenera and more suited to ground action; tarse high, strong and 
heavely scaled as in Orthotomus; toes longer, more ambulant, with the lateral 
equal and central elongated; rictus quite smooth, wings and tail as in Prinia or 
as in Orthotomus. 
brunneifrons Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 82. == Drymoeca Eüppelli Blyth. 
brnnnescens Hume, Ibis 1872. II. 109. — Drymoeca brunnescens. . 
major Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 105. == Drymoeca major. 
! pollicaris Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 30. = Drymoeca pollicaria Gray. 
robusticeps Swinhoe, Ibis 1866. II. 398. == Drymoeca robusticeps. 
robustipes Gray, Hand!. Birds I. 196. = Drymoeca robusticeps. 
schistacens Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 30. = Drymoeca schistilata Gray. 
HORITES pallidus Brookes, Proc. as. Soc. Bengal 1871. 210.; Journal 1872. 
II. 76. — Cashmir. 
HOR0RNIS (Sylviadae) Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 82; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 
XIII. 31. = Regulus Cuv. 
General structure of Tribura, but the rictus more or less armed; the tarse 
strongly scaled; the wings more gradated, having the fifth or sixth longest, and 
the tail broad, fan-shaped and not worn rigid. 
erythrogenys Hume, Ibis 1872. II. ,108. == Regulus erythrogenys. 
flaviventris Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. XIII. 31. — Regulus flaviventris 
Gray. 
fortipes Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. XIII. 31. == Regulus fortipes Gray. 
fuligiventris Hodgson, Proc. Zoo]. Soc. 1845. XIII. 31. == Regulus fuligini- 
ventris Gray. 
