400 
IRIDIPITTA. — IRRISOR. 
Irena cyanea Begbie. 
Biang Kapur. — Quayang, Krouing. 
puella Hoksfield, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1821. XIII. 153. — Blytii, Journ. as. 
Soc. Bengal 1846. XV. 308. [India. Tenasserim. Siam. Java. 
Coracias puella Latham, Ind. Ornith. I. 171. 
Galgulus puellus Vieillot, Encyel. méth. 868. 
Edolius puellus Temminck, PI. color. 70. 225. 
Irena indica Hay, Madras Journ. 
Irena turcosa Walden, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1870. V. 417. 
Ts 7 get pya zak. — Biang Kapur. — Bressi. 
puella Horsfield, Zool. Research. XIX. Tb. = Irena malayensis Horsf. 
turcosa Walden, Ann. mag. nat. hist. 1870. V. 417. — Irena puella Horsf. 
IRIDIPITTA (Subgen. Pittae) Bonaparte, 1854. — Elliot, Monogr. Pitta. = 
Pitta Vieill. 
Specc. : Pitta Baudi Schleg. , P. iris Gould. 
IEID0PTILUS Fitzinger. = Irrisor Less. 
IRIDORNIS Reinhardti Sclater, Ibis 1865. I. 495. Tb. 11. = Arremon rufi- 
vertex Prev. 
IRIDOSORNIS (Sylvicolidae) Lesson, 1844. = Tanagra Desm. 
analis Gray, Handl. Birds II. 65. = Tanagra analis Tschud. 
Dubusia Gray, Handl. Birds II. 65. = Arremon rufivertex. 
porphyrocephala Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855. 127. === Tanagra porphyro- 
cephala. 
Reinhardti Gray, Handl. Birds H. 65. = Arremon rufivertex. 
IRRISOR (Upupidae. — irrisor). — Lesson, Traité Ornith. 1831. 239. — 
Gray, Genera Birds I. 90. 
Synon.: Falcinellus Vieill. — Promerops Boie. — Rhinopomastes Smith. — Lampro- 
loplius Desm. — Lamprocephalus, Cyanepops Reichb. — Rhinopomastus, Scoptelus Cab. — 
Iridoptilus Fitz. 
Bill long, more or less curved throughout its length, the culmen keeled and 
the sides suddenly compressed from the base toivards the tip, which is entire and 
acute; the gonys lengthened and curved; the nostrils basal and small, with the 
opening oval and covered by a membranous scale. Wings long and rounded, with 
the fourth and fifth quills equal and longest. Tail more or less lengthened, broad 
and graduated. Tarsi much shorter than the middle toe, strong and covered with 
broad scales. Toes long and strong; the outer toe longer than the inner, and 
united at the base beyond the first joint; the hind toe very long; the claws long, 
strong; compressed and much curved. — 11 Specc. 
aterrimus Gray, Genera Birds I. 90. — v. Heuglin,, Ornith. NO Africa I. 219. 
[Africa or. merid. occid. 
Promerops aterrimus Stephens, gener. Zool. XIV. 257. 
Nectarinia unicolor Lichtenstein, Mus. berol. 
Epimachus unicolor Wagler, Oken's Isis 1829. 656. 
Promerops pusillus Swainson, Birds W Africa II. 128. 
Irrisor unicolor Gray, Genera Birds I. 90. 
Rhinopomastes pusillus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 411. 
Irrisor pusillus Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. anis. 12. 
Promerops cyanomelas Rüppell, syst. Uebers. NOAfr. 28. 
Scoptelus aterrimus Cabanis, Mus. Heine. II. 129. 
Irrisor cyanomelas v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1864. XII. 263. 
Rhinopomastus cyanoleucus Pz. Paul Würtbg., Icon. ined. 59. 
Bollei Hartlaub, Journ. Ornith. 1858. VI. 445. [Ashanti. 
Cabaitisi de Filippi, Revue Mag. Zool. 1853. V. 289. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. 
NO Africa I. 219. [Kir. Bongo. 
Rhinopomastus Cabanisi Reiciienbach , Handb. Ornith. I. 326. 
Promerops icterorhynchus v. Heuglin, syst. Uebers. NO Africa Nr. 149. 
capensss Lesson, Traité Ornith. 239. [Africa or. merid. occid. 
