OXYRUNCUS. — OXYURUS. 
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Oxyrhynchus striates (serratus) Mikan, Dolic. flor. faun. Brasil. 1823. 
Oxyrhamphus flammiceps Gray, List Genera Birds 23. 
frater 
Oxyrhamphus frater Sclatek et Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868. 326; Ibis 
1869. V. 285; Exot, Ornith. Tb. 66. 
Oxyrhynchus flammiceps Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. New York IX. 106. 
OXYRUNCUS Temminck. = Oxyrhynchus Tem. 
OXYSTOMUS (Corvidae. — o^uç acutus, GTOfia os) Swainson, Classif. Birds 1837. 
II. 270. = Creadion Vieill. 
Bill much lengthened, longer than the head; the sides compressed. Culmen 
flattened; nearly straight and angulated on each side; the base advancing very 
far upon the head, and dividing the frontal feathers. Nostrils placed in a large 
depression towards the base of the bill. Wings very short and considerably 
rounded. Tail moderate, rounded; all the feathers and the secondary quills en- 
ding in setaceous points. Legs long and robust. Tarsus much longer than the 
middle toe; lateral toes unequal, the inner shortest. 
carunculatus Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 270. — Creadion carunculatus Gray. 
OXYTELOS Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. 28. — Ortyxelos Vieill. 
OXYURA australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836. IV. 85. = Biziura australis 
Schleg. 
OXYURUS ( Synallaxinae. — o£uc acutus, oupa cauda) Swainson, Classif. Birds 
1837. II. 313; Zool. Journ. 1827. III. 354. == Synallaxis Vieill. 
Bill short, straight, very slender, resembling that of a Sylvia; the sides com- 
pressed and the margin inflexed; the tips entire. Wings rather lengthened; the 
outer quills graduated, the fourth and fifth equal. Feet large. Middle toe of the 
same length as the hinder; lateral toes unequal, the outer connected to the middle 
as far as the first point; inner toe shortest. Tail graduated, rigid; the inner 
web broad and abruptly sinuated at the end, outer web very narrow; tips of the 
shafts hard and naked as in Dendrolaptes. 
australis Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 313. = Synallaxis spinicauda Gray. 
corromaculatus Gould, Voy. Beagle 82. = Synallaxis melanops Gray. 
masafuerae Sclater, Ibis 1871. I. 180. Tb. 7. Fig. 2. = Synallaxis masa- 
fuerae Phil. 
ornatus Swainson, Classif. Birds II. 313. = Synallaxis spinicauda Gray. 
patagonicus Lesson, Traité Ornith. = Synallaxis spinicauda Gray. 
spinicauda Sclater, Nomencl. Av. neotrop. 62. == Synallaxis spinicauda Gray. 
tupimieri Lesson. = Synallaxis spinicauda Gray. 
