CYANALCYON. - CYANECULA. 
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Synon.: Heterornis Hodgs. 
Bill equal to the head, or less, at base as high as broad, arched and com- 
pressed throughout, strong obtuse, and nearly or quite entire. Culmen consider- 
ably carinated between the nares, but not much produced among the soft and 
simple frontal plumes. Tomiae erect, rather obtuse and near to the palate. Nares 
rather forward, implumose, large, the aperture broadlunate, lateral shaded above 
by a largish nude subarched scale. Gape moderate and nearly smooth. Plumage 
soft, simple, discomposed. Wings and tail short and firm. Remiges: 5. usually 
longest, two first strongly, two next trivially and both subequally, graduated up 
to the fifth. Tail quadrate, firm, with very long coverts. Tarsi subelevate, very 
strong and nearly smooth. Anteal toes basally nect, the outer as far as the 
joint, lateral fores subequal, central not elongated, hind very large, subdepressed 
and exceeding either of the lateral fores. Nails compressed, large, strong, falcate 
and acute. Tongue simple, subcartilaginous with bifid tip. 
nipalensis Hodgson, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1837. VI. 111. PterutJiius 
nipalensis. 
CYANALCYOÎÎ" (Halcyoninae. — xuavo«; cyaneus, aXxuMv alcedo) Bonaparte, 
Conspect. Vol. anis. 1850. 9. = Dacelo Leach. 
diops Bonaparte, Conspect. Vol. anis. 9. = Dacelo diops Wagl. 
JacquifiOti Gray, Handlist Birds I. 91. = Dacelo Macleayi Sciileg. 
lazuli Bonaparte, Conspect. Vol. anis. 9. — - Dacelo lazuli Wagl. 
lazulinus Bonaparte, Conspect. Vol. anis. 9. — Dacelo lazulina. 
leucopygia Verreaux, Revue Mag. Zool. 1858. X. 305. — Dacelo leucopygia. 
Macleayi Bonaparte, Conspect. Vol. anis. 9. = Dacelo Macleayi Schleg. 
pyrrhopygia Bonaparte, Conspect. Vol. anis. 9. — Dacelo pyrrlwpygia Sciileg. 
CYANANTHUS Reichenbach, Aufzähl. Colibri 1854. — Cynanthus Swains. 
CYANAUCHEN cyanoptra Bonaparte, Compt. rend. = Anser cyanopterus Schleg. 
CuYAiVEClJIiA (Sylviadae. — xuavoç cyaneus) — Brehm, Vögel Deutschlds. 
1828. — Keyserling und Blasius, Wirbeith. Europas 190. — Degland, Ornith. 
Europe I. 433. 
Synon.: Pandicilla Blyth. — Calliope Gould. — Melodes Blas. — Erithacus Degl. 
Bec médiocre, plus court que la tête, à arrête assez vive, à bord des mandi- 
bules légèrement rentrant, presque aussi haut que large à la base, qui est garnie 
de quelques soies roides; narines arrondies, découvertes; ailes subobtuses, médiocres, 
arrivant au tiers de la longueur de la queue; celle-ci égale, bicolore; tarses grêles, 
presque entièrement recouverts en avant par une grande scutelle ; doigts et ongles 
médiocres. — 6 Specc. 
caerulecula Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 1. — Degland, Ornith. Europ. I. 437. 
Motacilla caerulecula Pallas, Zoogr. ross. as. I. 437. [Russia. Sibiria. 
Sylvia cyanea Eversman, Add. Pall. Zoogr. 
Lusciola caerulecula Schlegel, Revue crit. 82. 
Cyanecula cyane Bonaparte, Catal. Parzudaki 5. 
Calliope suecioides Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Miscell. 83. 
Sylvia indica Blyth. 
Cyanecula fastuosa Lesson, Revue Zool. 1840. 226. — [cf. Niltava sundara 
HODGS.] 
Niltava fastuosa Bonaparte, Compt. rend. 1854. XXXVHI. 34. 
Calliope Gray, Genera Birds I. 182. =- Cyanecula camtschatcensis. 
caintschatcensis [Asia. Philippinae. 
Turdus camtschatcensis Gmelin, Syst. Natur. I. 817. 
Motacilla calliope Pallas, Reise III. 697. 
Calliope Lathami Gould, Birds Europe Tb. 114. 
Cyanecula calliope Gray, Genera Birds I. 182. — Keyserling und Blasius, 
Wirbeith. Europas 58. 
Calliope camtschatcensis Blyth, Journ. asiat. Soc. Bengal 1847. XVI. 134. 
Accentor calliope, A. camtschatcensis Temminck. 
Gangula, — Gunpigera, 
