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 149. Elainea albiceps parvirostris (Pelz.)- 



[Muscipela nlhkepn Lafr. & D'Orb., Syn. Av. i. (in Mug. tie Zvol. VII., CI. II.) (1837) p. 47 (hab. 



Rio de Janeiro, Yungas* and Tacna).] 

 Elainea parvirostris Pelz., Orn. Brns. (1868) pp. 107, 178 (typ. ex Curytiba). 



Qniribana de Caicara : " ? " ad. 21. iv. '98. " Iris seal ; i'eet aud bill black." 

 Caicara : ? ad. 2. iv., with uest aud eggs. (Nos. 105'JI, 10803 CUerrie coll.) 

 The uest stood eight feet from the ground, on an oak sapling in the open iield. 

 The parent bird was procured, though very shy. The nest is a ueat, tight stnicture. 

 with thin walls, composed of dry stems of various small plants, richly ornamented 

 with cobwebs and liued with soft silky hair. It measures (5 to 7i cm. across, the 

 cup 4A to 5 cm. across, and ouly about 2 in doptli. The two eggs are cream-coloured, 

 with pale reddish brown and deeper-lying pale purplish grey spots, forming an 

 irregular zone above the middle. They measure 19 by 15 and 19 by 14'8 mm. 



1511. Elainea viridicata (Vieill.). 



Sylvia viridicata Vieill., Nouv. Diet. xi. (1817) p. 171 (ex Azara — Paraguay). 

 Elainea placens Scl. (Cat. B. xiv. p. 148). 



Caicara : " ? " juv. 24. ii. '98. " Iris dusky ; feet cinereous ; bill blackish." 

 Qniribana de Caicara : S ad. 21. iv. 

 (Nos. 10239, 108(J0 Cherrie coll.) 



151. Elainea gaimardi (U'Orb.). 



Mnscicapara Gaimardii D'Orb., Voy. dans I' Am. jnerid., Ois. (1840) p. 326 (Yuracares, Bolivia). 



Caicara : S 27. iv. '98 ; ? 28. vi. 



Maipures : 3 cJtJ 8, 22, 24. xii. '98 ; ? ? 19, 22. xii., ? 6. i., d juv. 24. i. '98. 



Munduapo : c? 22. ii. '99 ; ? 10. ii. '99. 



" Iris seal (sepia brown) ; feet slate ; bill black. Iris straw-yellow ; bill blackish, 

 smoke-grey at base of mandible. Bill blackish, dusky at base of mandible." 



(Nos. 10802, 11000, 11397, 11.536, 11573, 11574, 11575, 11598, 11082, 11735, 

 11893, 12057 Cherrie coll.) 



Suapure : 5 c? (?, February, August, October, April (Klages). 



La Union : cj, December (E. Audr^). 



152. Elainea macilvaini Lawr. 



Elainea macilvainii Lawr., Ami. Lye. N.H. New York X. (1871) p. 10 (ex " Venezuela ? "). 



Suapure : ? Oct. 24, 1900 (Klages legit). 



Al. 56|, caud. 48, culm. 11|, tars. 15J mm. 



This bird differs from a Bogotd specimen in Mus. H. v. B. by the ujjjier parts 

 being of a purer less brownish green, the throat and breast being more suffnsed 

 with yellowish, an.d the wing feathers and their upper coverts of a purer black, 

 with broader yellowish white margins. The Suapure bird is in very fresh plumage. 



E. macilvaini Lawr. is by no means identical with E. gaimardi D'Orb. with 

 which Dr. Sclater has placed it as a synonym, but comes nearer to E. caniceps (Sws.) 

 of wliich it is the northern representative. 



The description of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny seems to be made from Bolivian specimens 



