ITHAGINIS. 
403 
coronata Gray, Handl. Birds I. 96. = Alcedo picta Gray. 
cyanotis Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 35. = Alcedo picta Gray. 
Lecoiitei Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 35. = Alcedo Lecontei Cass. 
leucogastra Reichenbach, Handb. Ornith. I. 6. = Alcedo leucogastra Fras. 
madagascariensis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 159. = Dacelo madagasca- 
riensis Schleg. 
natalensis Sharpe, Ibis 1869. 281; Monogr. Alced. 145. = Alcedo picta Gray. 
nitida Kaup, Familie Eisvögel 12. = Alcedo picta Gray. 
picta Kaup, Familie Eisvögel 12. = Alcedo picta Gray. 
ruficeps Hartlaub, Ornith. W Africa 262. == Alcedo rußceps. 
ITHAGINIS (Tetraonidae. — ^aysvv^ nobilis). — Wagler, Oken's Isis 1832. 
1228. — Gray, Genera Birds 1846. III. 504. 
Synon.; Itaginis Reichb. — Ithagenes Agass. — Plectrophorus Gray. — Plectropus 
Less. — Plectrophora Gray. — Galloperdix Blyth. — Hepburnia Bonap. 
Bill short, more or less slender, broad at the base, and compressed on the 
sides towards the tip, which is obtuse, the apical half of the upper mandible 
vaulted and curved; the nostril basal; lateral and covered by a large hard mem- 
branous scale. Wings moderate and rounded, loith the fourth, fifth and sixth 
quills the longest. Tail lengthened, broad and much rounded. Tarsi long, armed 
with two or sometimes three spurs. Toes long, united at the base, with the outer 
toe longer than the inner and transversely scaled above; the hind toe long; the 
claws long and slightly curved. — 5 Specc. 
cruentus Gray, Genera Birds III. 504. Tb. 130. Fig. 6. — Blanford, Journ. 
as. Soc. Bengal 1872. II. 71. — Elliot, Phasianidae IV. Tb. 
[Himalaya. Nepal. 
Phasianus cruentus Hardwick, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1820. XIII. 237. — 
Temminck, PI. color. 332. 
Phasianus Gardneri Hardwick, Transact. Linn. Soc. 1826. XV. 166. 
Perdix cruentatus Jardine, Gallinac. Birds II. 90. Tb. 7. 
Creoffroyi Verreaux, Bullet. Soc. Acclimat. 1867. 709. — Elliot, Phasianidae 
II. Tb. [China sept. 
lunulatus Gray, Genera Birds III. 504. [India. 
Perdix lunulata Lesson. Traité Ornith. 504. 
Perdix Hardwicki Gray, Griffith's anini. kingd. III. 48. — Jerdon, Illustr. 
Ind. Ornith. Tb. 62. 
Francolinus Hardwicki Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. II. Tb. 52. 
Francolinus nivosus Delessert, Magaz. Zool. 1840. Oiseaux Tb. 18. 
Galloperdix lunulosa Blyth, Catal. Birds as. Soc. 241. — Gould, Birds 
Asia VI. Tb. 4. 
Francolinus lunulatus Lesson, Traité Ornith. 504. 
Galloperdix lunulatus Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. 28. Tf. 319. 320. 
Hepburnia lunulata Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1856. XLII. 882. 
Tetraogallus lunulatus supra 231. 
Sitta Kodi. 
madagascariensis Gray, Genera Birds III. 504. — Ithaginis spadiceus. 
spadiceus [India. 
Tetrao spadiceus Gmelin, Svst, Nat. I. 759. — Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. II. 
Tb. 42. Fig. 2. 
Tetrao madagascariensis Scopoli, Sonnerat's Voy. Ind. 109. 
Perdix spadicea Latham, Ind. Ornith. II. 647. 
Plectrophora (Polyplectron) Northiae Gray, Illustr. Ind. Zool. II. Tb. 43. 
Fig. 1. ? 
Francolinus spadiceus Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831. 154. 
Galloperdix spadiceus Blyth, Catal. Birds as. Soc. 241 ; Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 
1842. XI. 462. — Gould, Birds Asia VI. Tb. 3. 
Ithaginis Northiae Gray, List Birds brit. Mus. III. 32. 
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