CHATARRHAEA. CHAUNONOTUS. 651 
CHATARRHAEA (subgen. Malacocerd) Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1855. 
XXIV. 478; Ibis 1867. III. 6. = Malacocercus Swains. 
caudata Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1855. XXIV. 478. = Malacocercus 
caudatus Blyth. 
chalybeus Gray, Handlist Birds I. 279. = Malacocercus chalyheus. 
Earlei Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1855. XXIV. 478. = Malacocercus 
Earlei Blyth. 
gularis Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1855. XXIV. 478. = Malacocercus 
gularis. 
Huttoni Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1855. XXIV. 478. — Malacocercus 
caudatus Blyth. 
rubiginosus Gray, Handlist Birds I. 279. = Malacocercus rubiginosus. 
CHATORHEA Blyth, Ibis 1867. IV. 6. = Chatarrhaea Blyth. 
CHATOBLEMMA Bonaparte 1853. = Chaetoblemma Swains. 
CHAULELASMUS (Anatidae) Gray, Genera Birds 1845. III. 619. Änäs Lin. 
Synon. : Chauliodus Swains. — Chauliodes, Ktinorhynchus Eyt. — Ctenorhynchas Agass. 
Bill tbe length of the head, of nearly equal breadth throughout, as high as 
broad at the base, the culmen nearly straight and depressed to the tip, which is 
armed with a narrow hooked nail; the lamellae of the upper mandible very pro- 
minent near the middle, slender and widely set; the nostrils placed near the base 
and culmen, lateral and oval. Wings lengthened and pointed with the first quill 
nearly as long as the second, which is the longest. Tail rather short and wedge- 
shaped. Tarsi much shorter than the middle toe. Toes united by a full web 
and the hind toe very small and slightly lobed. 
strepera Gray, Genera Birds III. 619. = Anas strepera Lin. 
CHAULIODUS (Anatidae) Swainson, Classific. Birds 1837. IL 366. — Anas Lin. 
Synon.: Chauliodes Eyt. — Chaulelasmus Gray. 
Bill of equal breadth throughout. The lamina fine, but not much projecting 
beyond the margins. 
capensis Swainson, Journ. roy. Instit. 1831. = Anas strepera Lin. 
strepera Swainson, Classific. Birds II. 366. = Anas strepera Lin. 
CHAUNA (Palamedeidae. — - XO^^'^OC inanis) Illiger, Prodrom. Syst. Mam. Av. 
1811. 253. — Gray, Genera Birds 1845. HL 590. = Palamedea Lin. 
Synon.: Opistholophus Vieill. — Chavaria Rafin. 
Bill short, with the culmen elevated and sloping, and arched to the tip, 
which is vaulted and hooked and the gonys moderate and straight; the nostrils 
lateral, large, placed in a membranous nasal groove with the opening large. 
Wings long with the third, fourth and fifth quills the longest. Tail moderate and 
nearly even. Tarsi long, shorter than the middle toe and covered with reticulated 
scales. Toes long, the lateral ones unequal, the outer being the longest, and 
the anterior ones united at their base by a membrane and covered above with 
small rather quadrate scales. The lores denuded of feathers. 
chavaria Illiger, Prodr. Syst 254. = Palamedea chavaria Tem. 
chavaria Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1863. XXXI. 371. = Palamedea 
derhyana Schleg. 
derbiana Gray, Genera Birds IH. 591. Tb. 161. = Palamedea derhyana Schleg. 
nigricoUis Sclater, Proceed. Zool. Soc. 1864. XXXIL 75. Tb. 11.— Pala- 
medea derhyana Schleg. 
CHAWOXOTUS (Malaconotinae) Gray, Magaz. nat. hist. 1837. IX. 489; 
Genera Birds L 299. — Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. XXXVIIL 535. 
Rostrum culmine basi depresso dilatator otundato , apice extremo profunde emar- 
ginato , suhadunco; pedes rohusti; alae rotundatae, remigum prima brevissima, 
secunda breviore decima, quarta quinta sexta omnium longissimis; Cauda brevis 
suhaequalis. — 1 Spec. 
.Sabinei Gray, Genera Birds L 299. Tb. 72. Fig. 5. — Jardine et Selby, 
Illustr. Ornith. 2 série Tb. 27. [Africa occid. 
Thamnophihis Sabinei Gray, Zool. Miscell. I. 6. 
