ELAINEA.—SUBLEGATUS. 37 
Flainea frantzii was first described by Mr. Lawrence from specimens obtained by 
Dr. von Frantzius in Costa Rica}, and soon afterwards the same species was named 
Lf. pudica by Mr. Sclater, whose description was based upon examples from Colombia, 
‘Venezuela, and Chiriqui®, In 1879> it was recognized that both descriptions referred 
to the same species. 
In Guatemala #. frantzii is a local bird, as our specimens were all obtained on the 
slope of the mountains between the volcanos of Agua and Fuego at elevations varying 
between 5000 and 1500 feet above the sea-level. Here it frequented the forests which 
so densely clothe these mountains. 
On the island of Omotepe in the lake of Nicaragua Mr. Nutting found this species 
rather common, usually in the dense woods®: this would be at an elevation of a few 
hundred feet above the sea. 
In Costa Rica this species is common, according to Mr. Nutting, who says it frequents 
hedgerows in the neighbourhood of San José’; though found on the slopes of the 
Volcan de Chiriqui* it seems absent from the rest of the State of Panama. In 
Colombia and Venezuela it reappears, and was found breeding near Medellin, in the 
Cauca valley, by Salmon ®, who describes its eggs as white with a few small spots near 
the larger end. The nest is placed on a low branch of a tree. 
SUBLEGATUS. 
Sublegatus, Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 172 (type S. glaber, Scl. & Salv.) ; Scl. Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 157. 
Sublegatus is like Llainea in general appearance, but has a much wider bill, nearly 
round nostrils at the end of the nasal fossa, with no membrane along the anterior and 
lower edges; the bill itself is wide and the edges slightly convex, the width at the 
gape being more than half the length of the tomia; the rictal bristles are moderately 
developed, the tarsi and toes much as in MHlainea; the 3rd, 4th, and 5th quills are 
nearly equal and longest; 6th<2nd, Ist=8th ; the tail is moderate and slightly emar- 
ginate, <wing, =4 tarsus. 
This genus was founded on S. glaber of Venezuela, a species we now find inseparable 
from Elainea arenarum of Costa Rica, the latter being the older specific title. 
Three species are included in Sudlegatus, spread over a wide area, extending from 
Costa Rica to the Argentine Republic. 
1. Sublegatus arenarum. (Zlainea arenarum, Tab. XXXVI. fig. 3.) 
Elainea arenarum, Salv. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 190+; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 112°; v. Frantz. 
J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 307°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 153°, 
Sublegatus glaber, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 171, t. 13. £.2°; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 333°; Scl. 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1577. 
