CYANORNIS. — CYANOTIS. 
851 
Malherbei Souancé, Revue Mag. Zool, 1857. = Platycercus auriceps Vig. 
novae Guineae Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. = Platycercus novae Zealandiae 
Gray. 
novae Zealandiae Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. = Platycercus novae Zea- 
landiae Gray. 
pacificus Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool. 1854. 153. — Platycercus pacificus 
Wagl. 
Rayneri Gray, Handlist Birds II. 140. = Platycercus novae Zealandiae Gray. 
Saisseti Verreaux, Revue Mag. Zool. 1860. XII. 387. = Platycercus novae 
Zealandiae Gray. 
ulietanus Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. = Platycercus ulieteanus Vig. 
unicolor Bonaparte, Naumannia 1856. = Platycercus unicolor Vig. 
CYANORNIS Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium 1854. II. 3. = Apterornis Selys. 
Rostrum elongatum, acuminatum, 
bonasia Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium II. 3. = Aphanapteryx honasia MEdw. 
erythrorhyncha Bonaparte, Conspectus Avium II. 3. = Apterornis caerules- 
cens Lafr. 
CYANOSPIZA (Spizinae. — xuavoç cyaneus, cki^ol fringilla) Baird, Birds N. 
America 1858. 500. = Passerina Vieill. 
Bill deep at the base, compressed; the upper outline considerably curved; 
the commissure rather concave, with an obtuse, shallow lobe in the middle. Gonys 
slightly curved. Feet moderate: tarsus about equal to middle toe; the outer la- 
teral toe barely longer than the inner, its claw falling short of the base of the 
middle; hind toe about equal to the middle without claw. Claws all much curved, 
acute. Wings long and pointed, reaching nearly to the middle of the tail; the 
second and the third quills longest. Tail appreciably shorter than the wings; 
rather narrow, very nearly even. 
amoena Baird,' Birds N. America 504. = Spiza amoena Bonap. 
ciris Baird, Birds N. America 503. = Passerina ciris Vieill. 
cyanea Baird, Birds N. America 505. = Passerina cyanea Vieill. 
parellina Baird, Birds N. America 502. Tb. 56. Fig. 1. = Coccoborus pa- 
rellina. 
versicolor Baird, Birds N. America 503. Tb. 56. Fig. 2. = Spiza versicolor 
Bonap. 
CYANOTHRUS (subgen. Molothri) Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1866, 19. 
= Molothrus Swains. 
Specc: Molothrus bonariensis, M. discolor, M. purpurascens , M. sericeus. 
CYAIVOTIS (Tyrannidae. — XDavoç cyaneus, ouc auris) Swainson, Classific. 
Birds 1837. II. 243. — Gray, Genera Birds 1848. I. 177. 
Synon. : Cyanotus Swains. — Tachuris d'Orb. 
Bill rather long and straight, with the culmen straight, but curved at the 
emarginated tip; the sides compressed; the gonys long and slightly ascending; the 
gape furnished with a few short weak bristles; the nostrils basal, pierced in a 
membranous groove, with the opening longitudinal and exposed. Wings moderate, 
/ with the third quill the longest , and the first two thirds the length of the second. 
Tail moderate and rounded on the sides. Tarsi longer than the middle toe, slender 
and covered in front with an entire scale. Toes lengthened and slender; the outer 
toe longer than the inner and united at its base ; the hind toe very long and armed 
with a long curved claw. — 1 Spec. 
Azarae Gray, Genera Birds I. 177. Tb. 49. Fig. 6. — Sclater, Proceed. 
Zool. Soc. 1867. 327; 1869. 159. [Chili. Argentina. Bolivia. 
Tachuri rey Azara, Apuntam. IL 72. 
Sylvia rubrigastra Vieillot, Encycl. méth. 480. 
Regulus Azarae Lichtenstein in Naum. Vögel Deutschlds. III. 966^. 
Eegulus omnicolor Vieillot, Galerie Oiseaux II. 271. Tb. 166. 
Begulus byronensis Gray, Griff, anim. Kingd. IL Tb. 42. 
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