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ijoutlieni Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Pasa 

 Nueva; Buena Vista; Motzorongo; Otatitlaii; Santa Lucrecia) , Cani- 

 ])eclie (Apazote), Yucatan (Merida; La Vega; Chichen-Itza; Cozii- 

 niel Island; Mujeres Island), and Chiapas (Palenque), and southward 

 through Guatemala (Coban; Choctum; Cajabon; Volcan de Agua; 

 Retalhuleu) to Honduras (Ceiba). 



Elainea, sp.? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 185G, 297 (Cordova, Vera Cruz). 

 Elainia placens Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 46 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; 



coll. A. Salle); Ibis, 1859, 443 (Cordova; (Juatcmala). — Salvin and Sclater, 



Ibis, 1859, 123, pi. 4, fig. 2. 

 Elainea placens Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18G1, 407 (nionogr.); ('at. Am. 



Birds, 1862, 217 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; Choctum, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xiv, 1888, 148, part (Cordova; Mujeres and Cozumel islands, Yucatan; 



Volcan de Agua, Retalhuleu, and Choctum, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. 



Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 201 (Yucatan).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 



447 (Yucatan). 

 Elainea placens? Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885,571 (Cozumel I.;crit.). 

 E[lainea] placens Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Ivond., 1870, 835 (crit.). 

 [Elainea] placens Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 48, part. — Heine and 



Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein., 1890, 143 (Mexico). 

 E[lainia] placens Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 194, in text (( -oban, Guatemala). 

 [Elainia] placens Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 352, no. 5324. 

 Myiopagis placens Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1888, 26, part 



(Cordova, Jalapa, and Alvarado, Vera Cruz; Merida, Mujeres I., and ('ozumel 



I., Yucatan; (!oban, Cajabon, Choctum, Retalhuleu, and Volcan de Agua, 



Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 359 (Mujeres and Cozumel islands; crit.). 

 [Mytopagis] placens Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 116, part. 

 Myiopagis jdacens placens Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, no. 6, July, 1903, 



147 (Ceiba, Honduras). 

 Myopagis yucatanensis Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. \\'ash., xiv, Sept. 25, 1901, 172 



(La Vega, Yucatan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; =young). 



MYIOPAGIS PLACENS JALISCENSIS Nelson. 

 JALISCO PLACID FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. p. placens but slightly larger, with relatively longer 

 tail, decidedly narrower bill, and slightly paler coloration. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 130-145 (139); wing, 67-70 (68.6); 

 tail, 64-69.5 (68.3); exposed culmen, 11; tarsus, 16.5-19 (17.8); mid- 

 dle toe, 9-10 (9.5).« 



Southwestern Mexico, in State of Jalisco (San Sebastian; Barranca 

 Ibarra), probably also southern Sinaloa and Territory of Tepic; 

 straggler to the Tres Marias Islands. 



Elainea placens (not of Sclater, 1859) Gray^son, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1871 

 (1872), 279 (Tres Marias Islands).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II., ii, 1874, 

 286 (Tres Marias). 



a Five specimens, two (one of them with sex undetermined) from the Tres Marias 

 Islands. 



