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MICROSITTACE. — MICROTARSUS. 
Tail moderate and broad with the end even or rounded. Tarsi as long as the 
middle toe and covered with an entire scale. Toes rather short, the lateral toes 
unequal, the hind toe long and short; the claws moderate, curved and acute. — 
4 Specc. 
a ma uro t is Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. [Japonia. 
Turdus amaurotis Temminck, PI. color. 497. 
Orpheus amaurotis Schlegel, Fauna japon. 68. Tb. 10. 
Galgulus amaurotis Reichenbach, natiirl. Syst. — Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 
1854. XXXVIII. 58. 
Oriolus squamiceps Kittlitz, Mém. acad. Petersbg. 1835. Tb. 16. 
Miroscelis squamiceps Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. 
chalcocephalus Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. — Pycnonotus chalcocephalus. 
melanoleucus Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. — Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. 
XXXVIII. 58. [China. 
Turdus melanoleucus Gray, Zool. Miscell. 1832. 1. 
Micropus melanoleucus Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 226. 
melanoleucus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 263. = Pycnonotus melanoleucus. 
ochrocephalus Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. = Criniger ochrocephalus Blyth. 
phi lip pen si s Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. [Philippinae. 
Turdus philippensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I. 814. — Kittlitz, Kupfertaf. 12. 
Fig. 2. 
squamiceps Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. = Microscelis amaurotis Gray. 
tristis Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 263. — Pycnonotus melanoleucus. 
Tirescens Gray, Genera Birds I. 235. 
Ixos virescens Temminck, PI. color. 382. Fig. 1. 
Jole virescens Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1845. XIV. 573. 
Brachypus virescens Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 264. 
Hypsipetes virescens Horsfield et Moore, Catal. Birds EInd. Comp. I. 356. 
Jole viridescens Blyth, Ibis 1867. III. 7. 
Criniger virescens Supra I. 814. 
MICROSITTACE (Psittacidae) Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854. 150. = 
Conurus Kuhl. 
calliptera Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus callipterus Souanc. 
cheripepe Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus Molinae Souanc. 
chlorogenys Bonaparte, 1. c. == Conurus lepidus Gray. 
cyanoptera Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus cyanopterus Gray. 
Devillei Bonaparte, 1. c. == Conurus Devillei Souanc. 
flaveola Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus callipterus Souanc. 
lepida Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus lepidus Gray. 
leucotis Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus leucotis Gray. 
Luciani Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus Luciani Deville. 
melanura Bonaparte, 1. c. == Conurus melanurus Gray. 
Molinae Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus Molinae Souanc. 
pyrrhura Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus smaragdinus Gray. 
rupicola Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus rupicula Tsch. 
smaragdina Bonaparte, 1. c. = Conurus smaragdinus Gray. 
Souancei Verreaux, Revue Mag. Zool. 1858. 437. Tb. 12. = Conurus Souan- 
cei Sclat. 
versicolor Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854. 150. = Conurus cyanopterus 
Gray. 
vittata Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854. 150. = Conurus vittatus Less. 
MICROTARSUS (Pycnonotinae. — piixpoç parvus, tolçooç tarsus) Eyton, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1839. VII. 102, = Pycnonotus Kuhl. 
Rostrum fere capiti aequale, altius quam latum, ad apicem incisum, ultraque 
nares compressum, ad basim setis armatum. Nares membranaceae, parvae, rotun- 
datae. Tarsi brevissimi, superiore parte plumati; digiti debiles, externi vix longiores 
quam interni; posteriores medios aequantes ungues compressi, posteriores longissimi; 
