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LEIOPICUS. — LEIOTHRIX. 
LEIOPICUS (Picidae. — Xeioç laevis, picus nom. propr.) Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. 
Zygod. 1854. 8. = Picus Lin. 
Synon.: Liopicus Cab. 
Blanfordi Gray, Handl. Birds II. 183. = Picus mahrattensis Latii.x 
brunnifrons Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zygod. 8. = Picus auriceps Vig. 
mahrattensis Bonaparte, Consp. Vol. Zygod. 8. = Picus mahrattensis 
Lath. 
LEIOPTILA ( Liotrichidae. — Xeioç laevis, 7rciXoç pennis vestitus). — Blyth, 
Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 449. 
Allied to Sibia and Ixops in the general structure, but the legs and toes are 
much smaller. The bill, too, is more slender, less so than in Yuhina, rather more 
than in Sibia, but it incurves less than in Sibia and has the tip of its tipper 
mandible slightly bent over and emarginated feebly; the upper ridge being more 
obtusely angulated than in the others; nostrils somewhat large, the orifice reduced 
to a fissure by the overlapping membrane; rictal bristles fine and inconspicuous. 
Wings rather short and rounded; having the first primary but half the length of 
the third, and the fourth and fifth longest; the tertiaries broad and almost trun- 
cate. Tail somewhat long, having its three mediate pairs of feathers equal, the rest 
graduating. — 1 Spec. 
aiinectans Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 450. [Darjiling. 
Sibia annectens Gray. 
Alcopus annectens Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 260. 
LEIOPTRIX Lesson, 1839. = Leiothrix Swains. 
LEIOTHRIX (Liothrichidae. — àsioç laevis, $pt£ penna) — Swainson, Fauna 
bor. amer. 1831. 490. — Gray, Genera Birds 1845. I. 269. 
Synon.: Furcuria, Leioptrix Less. — Bahila, Calipyga, Mesia, Philacalyx, Fringillo- 
parus, Sivia, Hemiparus, Joropus, Minla, Proparus, Certhiparus Hodgs. — Muscitrea, Phi- 
lacalyx Blyth. — Liothrix Strickl. — Callipyga Agass. 
Bill short, strong, more or less conic, the culmen and gonys equally curved 
before the nares, and the tomia scarped; tip of upper mandible strongly inclined 
over the lower , with salient notch, of the lower obtuse, entire and straight. Nares 
distinctly fossed, advanced, implumose, lateral; the aperture more or less lunated 
by the more or less hardened and scale like tect. Rictus moderate, furnished with 
long but feeble bristles ; nares also furnished with hairs. Wings short, round, firm, 
bowed, with five primaries gradated, the sixth and seventh equal and longest. Legs 
and feet very strong; tarse a third longer than middle toe and nail and nearly or 
quite smooth; toes medial, unequal, depressed, the anterior basally connected, the 
outer more so and longer, the hind large and broad, alone exceeding the inner digit 
and with its nail the outer , but not equal to the central toe and nail. Nails strong, 
compressed, falcate, hind largest. Tail short, lyrate, mucronate. — 14 Specc. 
argeutauris Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 184. 
[Nepal. Afghanistan. 
Philocalyx s. Mesia argentauris Hodgson, Ind. Review 1838. 88; Journ. as. 
Soc. Bengal 1841. X. 29. 
Fringillaparus Hodgson, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1844. XIII. 935. 
callipyga Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 184. [Nepal 
Calipyga s. Bahila calipyga Hodgson, Ind. Review 1838. 88. 
castaiieiceps Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1842. XI. 184. 
[Nepal. Darjiling. 
Proparus s. Minla castaneiceps Hodgson, Ind. Review 1838. 33; Journ. as. 
Soc. Bengal 1841. X. 29. 
Certhiparus castaniceps Hodgson, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1844. XIII. 939. 
chryseus Horsfield et Moore, Catal. EInd. Comp. I. 367. [Darjiling. 
Proparus chrysaeus Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 84. — Blanford, Journ. 
as. Soc. Bengal 1872. II. 45. 
Proparus chrysotis Hodgson, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1844. XIII. 938. 
