432 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



LESSER ANTILLEAN REFERENCES. 



Elainea martinica (not Miiscicapa martinica Linnseus) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., i, 1878, 271 (Grenada); i, 1879, 270 (Grenada).— Wells, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mu8., ix, 1887, 616 (Grenada; habits; descr. nest and eggs). 

 Elainea jmgana (not Muscicapa pagana Lichtenstein) Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 158 



(Grenada); Birds West Ind., 1889, 292 (Grenada); Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 



145, part (Grenada).— Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 566 (Grenada). 



ELiENIA CHIRIQUENSIS CHIRIQUENSIS Lawrence. 

 LAWRENCE'S EL.a:NIA. 



Similar to E. martinica suhj^agana but throat and chest more 

 ohvaceous, axillars and under wing-coverts more buffy or creamy 

 yellow, and size averaging decidedly smaller. 



Adults {sexes alilie). — Above plain grayish olive or deep, slightly 

 olivaceous, hair brown, the feathers of pileum darker mesially, form- 

 ing more or less distinct streaks; center of crown with more or less 

 of concealed white, in form of streaks, but this sometimes nearly 

 obsolete; tail dark grayish brown, with pale grayish brown edgings; 

 wings slightly darker than tail, the middle and greater coverts broadly 

 tipped with pale brownish gray (somewhat tinged with yellowish in 

 fresh-plumaged specimens), the secondaries edged (except basally) 

 with the same; primaries narrowly edged with very pale brownish 

 gray; sides of head similar in color to upper parts, paling gradually 

 toward throat, the supraloral region and eyelids (narrow orbital 

 ring) indistinctly paler; chin and throat dull grayish white, more or 

 less tinged with buffy yellowish, deepening on chest and sides into 

 yellowish gray, the abdomen, median portion of breast, under tail- 

 coverts, axillars, and under wing-coverts pale cream-yellowish or 

 ]>ale straw yellow; maxilla with basal half (approximately) horn 

 brownish, terminal half blackish; mantlible pale-colored, more or 

 less extensively dusky terminally; legs and feet brownish black or 

 dusky brown. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 125-137 (134); wing, 71.5-77 (74.1); 

 tail, 58.5-63 (60.9); exposed culmen, 10-11.5 (11.1); tarsus, 16-18 

 (17.1); middle toe, 9.5-10.5 (9.8). « 



^Eleven specimens. 



