BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 429 



E[lainea] riisii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 834 (ci"it.)- 



[Elainia] rissii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 352, no. 5327. 



Elainea martinica riisii Hartert, l])is, 1893, 318 (Oura9a(); crit.); Novit. Zool., 



ix, 1902, 300 (do.). 

 Elainea barbadensis Cory , Auk, v, Jan., 1888, 47 (Barbados, Lesser Antilles; coll. 



C. B. Cory), 158; Birds West Ind., 1889, 292; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 



109, 145 (Barbados). 

 E[lainca] barbadensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 200, in text (crit.). 

 [Elainea] barbadensis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 123. 

 (?) Elainea cinerescens Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, July 29, 1884, 180 



(Old Providence I., Caril:)bean Sea; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Sclater, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xiv. 1888, 136, footnote. 



EL.«NIA MARTINICA SUBPAGANA (Sclater and Salvin). 

 NORTHERN EL^ffiNIA. 



Similar to E. m. martinica, but under parts of body yellow instead 

 of white and (usually) general coloration more olivaceous. 



Adults (sexes alilce) . — Above plain olive, becoming slightly browner 

 on rump and upper tail-coverts, the elongated feathers of pileum 

 darker mesially, forming indistinct streaks, those in postero-central 

 portion of the pileum with the concealed portion white, or yellowish 

 white ; tail deep grayish brown (hair brown or broccoli) , the rectrices 

 edged with lighter brown or olive; wings dusky, the greater and 

 middle coverts broadly tipped with pale grayish brown (sometimes 

 faintly buffy), the secondaries edged (except basally) with pale olive- 

 yellowish, the inner secondaries (tertials) more broadly edged with 

 dull whitish, the primaries and greater coverts narrowly edged with 

 pale olive; sides of head grayish olive, gradually fading below into 

 pale gray or grayish wliite on chin and throat; lores pale grayish or 

 grayish white; a narrow orbital ring of dull white; chest and sides 

 of breast pale yellowish gray, gradually fading out on flanks; rest of 

 under parts, including axillars and under wing-coverts, light yellow 

 (between sulphur and straw yellow) ; maxilla brownish basally, dusky 

 terminally; mandible paler, with dusky tip; iris brown; legs and feet 

 blackish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but color of upper parts browner, the 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and edges of rectrices inclining to wood 

 brown or russet; no white on pileum; wing-bands pale buff or buffy 

 white; edges of secondaries buffy (varying from yellowish to brown- 

 ish) ; yellow of under parts paler. 



Adult 7nale.— Length (skins), 137-173 (159); wing, 74-84.5 (79.9); 

 tail, 63-77.5 (72.6); exposed culmen, 10.5-13 (11.8); tarsus, 19-22 

 (20.2); middle toe, 11-13.5 (12.3) .« 



ff Thirty-nine specimens. 



