BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 405 



with light greenish oUve; wings dusky, the middle coverts margined 

 or tipped, the greater coverts edged, with light greenish olive, prima- 

 ries narrowly edged with the same, and secondaries edged with yellow- 

 ish olive or olive-3'ellow; a narrow siipraloral stripe of dull white, 

 involving upper eyelid, and indistinctly continued beyond; a broad 

 dusky loral streak; a dull white suborbital spot, involving lower eye- 

 lid ; auricular region dusky grayish brown, with narrow shaft-streaks 

 of whitish; chin, throat, and chest dull white, the feathers grayish 

 beneath surface; rest of underparts, including axillars and under wing- 

 coverts, light sulphur or primrose yellow; inner webs of remiges edged 

 with paler yellow or yellow white; bill dark brown or blackish, the 

 basal half, more or less, of mandible paler brownish; legs and feet 

 dusky (in dried skins). 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but pileum, back, etc., browner, 

 the crown without any yellow. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 130; wing, 65.5; tail, 61.5; exposed 

 culmen, 10; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 9. 5.*^ 



Adult female.— heYigi\\ (skins), 118-132 (126); wing, 62-65 (63.5); 

 tail, 57.5-60.5 (59.1); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 16.5-17 

 (16.9); middle toe, 9-10 (9.2).^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Elania cotta Gosse, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., iii (2), 1849, 257 (Jamaica); Illustr. 

 Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 45. 



[Elaenea] coi^ae Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 186. 



Elainea cotta Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 76 (crit.), 408 (monogr.); 1876, 

 835; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 218; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 149.— 

 Albrecht, Journ. Mr Orn., 1862, 198. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., 

 1863, 289.— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109. 130. 



[Elcdnen] cotta Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 835. 



[Elainia] cotta Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 352^no. 5325. 



Elaima cotta Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 231; Birds West Ind., 1889, 118. 



[Elainea] cotta Sclater and S.\lvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 48. — Cory, List Birds 

 West Ind., 1885, 15. 



[Elainea] cottae Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Ilein., 1890, 143. 



[Myiopagis] cotta Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 116. 



Genus TYRANNISCUS Cabanis and Heine. 



Tyranniscus c Cabasis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Sept. 30,1859,57. (Type, 

 Tyrannuhts nigricapillus Lafresnayc.) 



Small Tyrannidce (wing about 43-60 mm.) with very short and 

 thick bill (its width at frontal antise equal to more than two-thirds the 

 distance from nostril to tip of nuixilla and not conspicuously greater 

 than its depth at same point), tail more than three-fourths as long as 

 wing, basal phalanx of middle toe united to outer toe for less than its 

 entire length, and nostril in anterior end of nasal fossae. 



1 One speciuKMi. ^ Four specimens, 



c "Diminutivum von Tvpa.vvo<; (Revrscher) =^ Tyrannuhts." 



