MU SCIC APIDiE. 
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687. Platystira pririt. 
Muscicapa pririt, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. N. xxi. p. 486. 
Platystira pririt, Gray : Strickl. & Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, 
p. 144. 
Batis pririt, Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 168. 
a W. Africa (. N '. C. Strickland) 1838. — b S. Africa (Bt. at 
Stevens's) 1842. — c Damara-land (G. J. Andersson) 1852. 
Lanioturdus. 
Lanioturdus, Waterhouse, Alex. Exp. App. p. 264 (1838). 
688. Lanioturdus torquatus. 
Lanioturdus torquatus , Waterh. 1. s. c. : Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, 
p. 170. 
Platystira albicauda, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 144. 
a Damara-land ( G. J. Andersson) 1852. 
The type of P. albicauda , Strickl. 
Stenostira. 
Stenostira, Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 316 (1850). 
689. Stenostira scita. 
Muscicapa scita, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. N. xxi. p. 74. 
Stenostira scita, Bp. 1. s. c. 
Platystira longipes, Sw., Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 143. 
a S. Africa (Dr A. Smith). 
Rhipidura 1 . 
Bhipidura , Vigors & Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 246 
(1826). 
690. Rhipidura flabellifera. 
Motacilla flabellifera, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 943. 
Bhipidura flabellifera, Gray, Gen. B. p. 32 (1840) : Buller, 
B. New Zeal. p. 143. 
a New Zealand (Askew) 1840. 
Strickland (Ann. & Mag. viii. p. 373) draws attention to the 
fact that the R. flabellifera of Vigors & Horsfield is not the same 
as M. flabellifera, Gm. but must be called R. albiscapa, Gould. 
1 Strickland in his review of Jerdon’s ‘Illustrations of Indian Ornithology’ 
(Ann. & Mag. N. H. xv. p. 275) says that it is impossible to separate by well- 
defined generic characters Swainson’s genus Leucocerca from Bhipidura. 
