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ALECTOROPS. — ALETHE. 
ständig, in den nackten Schnabel eingebohrt. Commissur sehr seicht gebogen, 
Kinnlade etwas niedriger als Oberschnabel. Flügel und Schwanz abgerundet. 
Erste Schwinge nicht halb so lang wie zweite. Beine und Zehen wie bei Textor, 
aber schwarz. 
albirostris Reichenbach, ausländ. Singvögel III. 88. = Textor alecto Temm. 
panicivora Reichenbach, ausländ. Singvögel IL — Loxia panicivora (j'm.i,. 
ALECTOROPS Verreaux, Revue Magaz. Zool. 1855. VIL 356. = Phoenicophaës 
Stepii. 
Bec beaucoup plus haut que le front, qui est concave; narines oblongues, 
horizontales, placées sur le bord de la mandibule, à plus d'un tiers de sa lon- 
gueur; face nue et très-papilleuse; plumes de la partie antérieure échancrées, 
comme dans certains Melias. 
pyrrhocephalus Verreaux, Revue Magaz. Zool. 1855. VIL 356. = Phoenico- 
phaës pyrrhocephalus Steph. 
ALECTORITRTJS gallus Gloger, tiandb. Naturgesch. 1842. 325. = Xenurus tri- 
color Cab. 
ALECTROENAS Gray, List Genera Birds 1840. — Reichenbach, Tauben 123. 
= Ptilonopus Swains. 
Federn am Kopfe, Halse und der Brust schmal gestreckt, pfriemenspitzig, 
an der Spitze knorpelig, glänzend, Schwanz abgestutzt. 
nitidissima Gray, List Genera Birds. = Ptinolopus nitidissimus Gray. 
ALECTROPHASIS Gray, List Genera Birds 1841. 26. = Gallophasis Hodgs. 
Cuvieri Gray, List Genera Birds 26. = Gallophasis Cuvieri Gray. 
Guerini Gray, List Genera Birds 26. = Gallophasis Cuvieri Gray. 
personatus Gray, List Genera Birds 26. = Phasianus pyronotus. 
pyronotus Gray, List Genera Birds 26. — Phasianus pyronotus Gray. 
ALECTRTJRURTJS (Myiotheridae. — aXexTOp gallus, oupa cauda) Vieillot, Ana- 
lyse 1816. 39. = Xenurus Boie. 
Bec glabre et déprimé à la base, conico-convexe, crochu à la pointe; man- 
dibule inférieure droite. Queue comprimée, susceptible de reste relevée. 
Gallita tricolor Vieillot, Analyse 66. = Xenurus tricolor Cab. 
ALECTRURUS alector Lesson, Traité Ornith. 387. = Xenurus tricolor Cab. 
guirayetapa Vieillot, diet. hist. nat. XII. 490. = Psalidura guirayetapa Cab. 
tricolor Vieillot, diet. hist. nat. XII. 491. = Xenurus tricolor Cab. 
ALECTRYON Cabanis = Gallophasis erythrophthalmus Gray. 
ALECTURA Latham, gener. Hist. Birds X. 455. Tb. 6. = Talegallus Lathami 
Gould. 
ALECTURA Azarii Swainson, Fly catch. 96. Tb. 6. = Xenurus tricolor Cab. 
ALECTTIRUS (Vieillot) Gray, Genera Birds 1847. I. 243. ~ Xenurus Boie. 
Bill short, rather depressed and very broad at the base with the culmen 
slightly curved and the sides compressed to the emarginated tip; the gonys long 
and slightly ascending; the gap furnished with long prominent bristles; the nostrils 
lateral, with the opening rounded and exposed. Wings moderate with the third 
and fourth quills nearly equal and longest; the first quill usually singularly 
formed. Tail more or less long, composed of differently formed feathers, and some 
times compressed. Tarsi as long as the middle toe, slender and covered in front 
with transverse scales. Toes long , the lateral toes nearly equal, the hind toe long. 
flaviventris d'Orbigny, Synopsis Avium 55. = Hapalocercus ßaviventer Cab. 
guirayetapa d'Orbigny, Synopsis Avium 54. = Psalidura guirayetapa Cab. 
leucocephalus d'Orbigny, Synopsis Avium 54. = Dixiphia leucocephala Cab. 
psalurus Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Thiere Brasil. 11.510. = Psalidura guira- 
yetapa Cab. 
tricolor d'Orbigny, Synopsis Avium 54. = Xenurus^tricolor Cab. 
yetapa d'Orbigny, Voy. Amér. mérid. 342. = Cybernetes yetapa Cab. 
ALECTURUS Lathami Gray, Zool. Miscell. L 3. = Talegallus Lathami Gould. 
ALETHE Cassin, Journ. acad. Philadelphia V. 183.; Proceed, acad. Philadelphia. 
1859. 43. — Heine, Journ. Ornithol. 1860. VIIL 129. = Timalia Horsf... 
