MACROGLOSÖA. — MACßONUS. 
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Tarsi as long as or longer than, the middle toe, robust, partly clothed with 
plumes and the apical portion covered with transverse scales. Toes unequal, the 
lateral toes nearly equal, shorter than the middle toe and united by a short membrane. 
africanus Swainson, Birds WAfrica II. 62. = Caprimulgus longipennis Shaw. 
condylopterus v. Heuglin, Journ. Ornith. 1864. XII. 243. === Caprimulgus 
condylopterus. 
longipennis Gray, Genera Birds I. 52. == Caprimulgus longipennis Shaw. 
vexillarius Gray, Genera Birds I. 52. = Caprimulgus longipennis Shaw. 
MACROGLOSSA alecto Temminck, Coup d'oeil 1849. III. 405. =? Microglossus 
aterrimus Wagl. 
MACRON17S (Napodinae). — Jardine, Illustr. Ornith. 1835. Tb. 150. — Gray, 
Genera Birds I. 209. 
Synon.: Napothera Boie. — Macronous, Drymocataphus Blyth. — Cacopitta Bonap. — 
Bessethera Cab. 
Bill rather long and slightly depressed at the base, the culmen nearly straight, 
but curved and with the sides compressed at the emarginated tip; the gonys rather 
long and ascending \ the nostrils lateral and placed anteriorly in a membranous 
groove, with the frontal plumes projecting to the opening, which is large, suboval 
and exposed. Wings short and rounded, with the fifth and sixth quills equal and 
longest. Tail moderate, broad and much rounded. Tarsi as long as the middle 
toe and covered in front with an almost entire scale. Toes long, with the lateral 
toes nearly equal, the hind toe long and strong. — 13 Specc. 
albigularis Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. — Brachypteryx albigularis. 
atriceps Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. = Brachypteryx atriceps Jerd. 
atrigularis [Borneo. 
Cacopitta atrigularis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 257. 
barbatus [Malacca. 
Bessethera barbota Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 76. 
Drymocataphus barbatus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 319. 
Myiothera barbata Supra I. 465. 
bicolor Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. === Brachypteryx bicolor Less. 
capistratus Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. [Java. 
Myiothera capisirata Temminck, PI. color. 185. Fig. 1. 
Bessethera capistrata Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 76. 
Turdirostris capistrata Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 217. 
Drymocataphus capistratus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 319. 
epilepidotus Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. = Brachypteryx striata. 
euryzouus Müll. [Borneo. 
Napothera euryzonus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 318. 
fuscocapillus [Ceylon. 
Drymocataphus fuscocapillus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1849. XVIII. 815. 
grammiceps Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. = Myiothera grammiceps Tem. 
lepidocephalus Müll. [Java. Sumatra. 
Napothera lepidocephalus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 318. 
lepidoplearus [Java. 
Cacopitta lepidopleura Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 257. 
Myiothera lepidopleura Temminck, Mus. lugdun. 
leucogrammicas [Borneo. 
Cacopitta leucogrammicus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 257. 
Myiothera leucogrammica Temminck, Mus. lugdun. 
leucotis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 218. [Manilla. 
Timalia leucotis Strickland, Contrib. Ornith. 1848. Nr. 3. 
1 or i oat us Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. [Sumatra. 
Myiothera loricata Müller, nederl. Tijdschr. 1835. 348. 
Cacopitta loricata Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 257. 
macrodactylus Gray, Genera Birds I. 210. — Malacopteron macrodactylum 
Strickl. 
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