446 
ATAGEN. — ATELORNIS. 
Hypomorphnus uribitinga Cabanis. Burmeister, Syst. Uebers. Th. Brasil. 
IL 43. 
Hypomorphnus Gundlachi Cabanis, Joufd. Ornith. 1854. Extraheft 80. 
Urubitinga zonura Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1858. XXVI. 128; Transact, 
Zool. Soc. 4 ser. VI. 262. 
Urubitinga brasiliensis Marcgrave Brasil. 214. — v. Pelzeln, Wiener zool. 
bot. Abhandl. 1862. XIL 137. 
Urubitinga urubitinga Gray, Handlist Birds I. 9. 
Gavilan mixto negro, G. mixto chorreado, G. mixt o pintado Azara, Apuntam. 
No. 17. 18. 20. 
Batista. * 
ATAGEN (Pelecanidae). — Möhring, Genera Avium 1752. 82. — Gray, Ge- 
nera Birds 1845. IH. 668. 
Synon.: Fregata Briss. Cuv. — Tachypetes Vieill. 
Mandibulae superioris apex incurvus. Guttur palearibus binis, nudis^ pendulis, 
Cauda insigniter forcipata. Digiti antici très, posticus unus. 
Bill longer than the head., broad at the base , with the culmen depressed., con- 
cam and suddenly hooked and acute; the sides compressed and grooved; the lateral 
margins dilated on the sides near the base; the nostrils basal , lateral, linear, placed 
in the lateral groove and scarcely visible. Wings extremely long and narrow, with 
the first two quills the longest. Tail very long and strongly forked. Tarsi very 
short, one third shorter than the outer toe, much compressed and half covered with 
feathers. Toes long, all united by a strongly indented web, the lateral ones unequal., 
the outer one the longest and the hind toe half the length of the middle 07ie; the 
claws moderate and curved. The throat naked and capable of being dilated into 
an extending pouch from near the tip of the lower mandible downwards to the 
breast. — 2 Specc. 
americanus Frisch, Vögel Tf. 113. = Ortyx virginiana Gray. 
aquila Gray, Genera Birds III. 669. [Oceanus tropicus. 
Pelecanus aquilus Linne, Syst. Natur. I. 216. 
Fregata Brisson, Ornith. VL 506. Tb. 43. Fig. 2. — Buffon, PI. enlum. 961. 
Pelecanus leucocephalus^ P. Palmerstoni Gmelin, Syst. Natur. 1. 573. 
Fregata aquila Illiger, Prodrom. Mam. Av. 279. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays- 
Bas Pelecan. 2. 
Tachypetes aquila Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux Tb. 294. — Audubon, Birds 
America Tb. 421. — Spix, Aves Brasil. Tb. 105. — Hartlaub und 
FiNSCH, Fauna Centralpolyn. 265. — Gould, Birds Australia VIL Tb. 71. 
Tachypetes leucocephalus Kittlitz, Kupfertaf. 15. Tf. 20. Fig. 1. 2. 
Tachypetes minor Hartlaub, Ornith. Madagascar 87. 
Attagen ariel Krefft 1862. 191. 
Tachypetes Palmerstoni Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1864. — Cassin, Pro- 
ceed, acad. Philadelphia 1856. October. 
Fregattvogel. — Fregatte. — Man of war Bird. — Babi horcado. 
ariel Gray, Genera Birds III. Tb. 183. — Atagen minor. 
ariel Krefft 1862, 191. = Atagen aquila Gray. 
minor [Moluccae. Australia. 
Fregata minor Brisson, Ornith. VL 509. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Pe- 
lecan 3. 
Pelecanus minor Gmelin, Syst. Natur. I. 572. 
Tachypetes nmior Illiger teste Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium II. 167. 
Atagen ariel Gray, Genera Birds III. Tb. 183. — Gould, Birds Australia 
VIL Tb. 72. 
ATELEODACNIS Cassin. Gray, Handlist Birds L 117. = Dacnis Cuv. 
ATELORNIS (Todidae) Pucheran, Revue Zool. 1846. 193. — Reichenbach, 
Handb. spec. Ornith. 1. 53. ~ Brachypteracias Lafresn. 
Von Brachypteracias getrennt wegen des kürzeren Laufes und der kürzeren 
Hinterzehe. 
