714 
NITIDULA. — NOCÏUA. 
virgat us Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Astur. 32. [India. Java. Sumatra. Timor. * 
Falco Brissonianus Shaw, gener. Zool. VII. 200. 
Accipiter Dussumieri Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Falco virgatus Temminck, PI. color. 109. 
Accipiter af finis Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 81. 
Accipiter besra, A. fringillarius Jerdon, Illustr. Ind. Ornith. 29. Tb. 4. 
Falco delafonii Smith. 
Accipiter nisoides Blyth, Journ. as. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 727; 1852. 
359; Ibis 1863. V. 14. 
Hieraspiza virgatus Kaup, Oken's Isis 1847. 169. 
Nisus (Jeraspizia) virgatus Kaup, Wiegm. Arch. 1850. XVI. 34. 
Accipiter virgatus Bonaparte, Conspect. Avium I. 32. — Blyth, Ibis 1863. 
V. 13. — Wallace, Ibis 1868. IV. 5. 
Shinap Ballam. — Bazra, Dharti. — Vaish tapa dyaga. — Ur chilli. — 
Tamul. — Allap allap lallar. 
xanthothorax Lesson, Traité Ornith. 58. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Astur. 
50. [Guiana. Brasilia. 
Falco xanthothorax Temminck, PI. color. 92. 
Falco leucauchen Pz. Wied, Temminck, PI. color. 306. juv. 
Astur xanthothorax Vigors, Zool. Journ. 1825. I. 338. 
Sparvius ruficollis Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 1267. 
Accipiter xanthothorax Gray, List Birds brit. Mus. 
Micrastur xanthothorax Gray, Genera Birds. 
Micrastur ruficollis, M. leucauchen Strickland, Ornith. Syn. 122. 123. — 
Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869. 366. 367; Ibis 1859. I. 218. 
Falco concentricus Pucheran, Revue Mag. Zool. 1850. 91. 
Circaetus (Herp>etotheres) xanthothorax Kaup, Oken's Isis 1847. 259. 
Climacocercus xanthothorax Burmeister, syst. Uebers. Th. Bras. II. 85. 
zonarius Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Astur. 47. [Africa occid. 
Falco zonarius, F. macroscelides Temminck, Mus. lugdun. 
Micronisus zonarius Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 15. — Desmurs, Iconogr. 
Ornith. Tb. 61. 
Astur macrocelides Hartlaub, Ornith. WAfr. 12; Journ. Ornith. 1855. III. 354. 
Accipiter zonarius Sharpe, Ibis 1870. VI. 59. 
zonothorax [Venezuela. Columbia. 
Climacocercus zonothorax Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1865. XII. 406. 
Micrastur zonothorax Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869. 254. 366. 
NITIDULA Campbelli Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861. 201.— Darjiling. 
NIVICOLA (Sylviadae) Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 82. — Blyth, Journ. as. 
Soc. Bengal 1845. XIV. 586. — Drymoeca Swains. 
Bill still shorter, feebles, Regulus like, with the notch evanescent. Wings and 
tail broader, firmer, ampler than in any of the above. Tail fan like. Wings not 
absolutely round, the fifth quill longest, the two first nearly, the next little and 
both inter se equally, gradated. Tarse medial. Toes simple, ambulant. 
schistilata Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 1844. 81. — Drymoeca schistilata Gray. 
NOCTHRURA. = Nothura. 
1VOCTUA (Strigidae. — Noctua nom. propr.). — Savigny, Descr. del' Egypte 
1809. — Lesson, Traité Ornith. 101. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Striges 24. 
Synon.: Athene, Glaucidium Boie. — Carine, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx, Microglaux, 
Microptynx, Hierocoglaux (Jeraglaux, Zeraglaux) Spiloglaux, Cephaloptynx, Sceloglaux, Cte- 
noglaux, Pholeoptynx Kaup. — Nyctipethes Swains. — Ninox Hodgs. — Speotyto Glog. — 
Gymnasia, Smithoglaux, Rabdoglaux, Rhodoglaux Phalaenopsis Bonap. — Gymnoglaux Cab. 
— Micrathene Coues. 
Tête sans aigrette et sans conque de V oreille évasée ou enfoncée, c'est à dire 
ouverture auriculaire de forme ovalaire et creusée dans les proportions communes 
aux autres oiseaux. Disque des plumes sétacées de la face peu développé, près- 
