69G 
NEMURA. — NEOCTANTES. 
torquata Duels, Bullet, acad. Bruxelles 1855. XXII a . 155. = Dacnis pul- 
cherrima Sclat. 
verticalis de Lafresnaye, Revue Zool. 1840. 227. = Arremon verticalis. 
NEMURA (Sylviadae.) — Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 83; Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1845. XIII. 27. 
Sy?ion.: Nematura Agass. 
General structur of Phoenicura, but slighter, with slenderer legs and feet, 
and bill more armed at the point and lateral toes unequal, ivings and tail mucro- 
nated, as in the last, but the ivebs less broad and the tips narrowed wedgewice, 
nails long, slender and delicate, like the digits and legs. — 4 Specc. 
chrysaea Gray, Genera Birds III. App. 8. — Acanthiza chrysaea. 
cyanura Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 27. = Nematura rufilata Hodgs. 
flavolivacea Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 27. [Sikim. 
Janthia flavolivacea Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 133. 
Erythaca flavolivacea Blyth, Catal. Birds as. Soc. 171. 
Tarsiger superciliaris Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 77. 
Hodgsoni Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 76. Tb. 62. [Nepal. 
hyperythera Gray, Genera Birds III. App. 8. [Sikim. 
Janthia hyperythra Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 132. 
rufilata Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 27. — Swinhoe, Ibis 1860. II. 54. 
% [Himalaya. Japonia. 
Nemura cyanura Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1845. 27. $ 
Erythaca Tytleri Jameson, Edinb. philos. Journ. 1835. 214. 
Janthia rufilatus Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 132. — Swinhoe, 
Ibis 1861. III. 329. 
Motacilla cyanura Pallas, Reise II. App. 709. $ 
Lusciola cyanura Schlegel, Fauna japon. 54. Tb. 21. 
Janthia cyanura Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863. 291; Ibis 1863. V. 298. 
Lusciola cyanura v. Schrenck, Reise Amurld. 346; Vögel Amurld. 361. 
NENGETUS (Tyranninae) Swainson, Zool. Journ. 1827. III. 166. = Taenioptera 
BONAP. 
Rostrum mediocre, compressum. Alae subbreves, remigum pogoniis internis 
attenuatis. Pedes elongati, robusti. 
Typus: Taenioptera nengata Gray. 
NEOCHELIDON tibialis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864. 347.=^ Hirundo tibialis. 
fucata Gray, Handl. Birds I. 72. = Hirundo fucata Tem. 
NEOCHLOE rufipennis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857. 213. = Vireo rufi- 
pennis. 
brevipennis Gray, Handl. Birds I. 382. — Vireo rufipennis. 
NEOCHMIA phaeton Hombron et Jacquinot, Voy. Pol Sud Tb. 22. Fig. 3. = 
Erythrura phaëton Puch. 
NEOCORYS (Alaudinae. — veoç juvenis, xopuç alauda) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1857. 5. — Baird, Birds NAmerica 233. = Alauda Lin. 
Bill half as long as the head; the culmen concave at the base, slightly decurved 
at the tip. Rictus without bristles. Legs stout; tarsi distinctly scutellate, longer 
than the middle toe. Hind toe very long, equal to the tarsus, much longer than 
the middle toe; its claw but slightly curved and about half the total lenght. Inner 
lateral toe rather longer than outer. Wings much longer than the tail; first quill 
longest. Tertials considerably longer than the secondaries. Tail rather short, 
emarginate. , 
occidentalis M'Call, Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1851. 218. = Alauda Spra- 
guei Aud. 
Spraguei Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857. 5. = Alauda Spraguei Aud. 
NEOCREX erythrops Sclater 1868. = Porzana Schomburgki Schleg. 
NEOCTANTES (Thamnophilinae. — veoç novus, xravnfjç sicarius) Sclater, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1868. 572. = Thamnophilus Vieill. 
Habitus generalis Thamnophili, sed rostro compresso, subrecurvato differt. Nares 
