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E[lainea] frantzii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 835. 



Elsenia frantzii Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 37 (Boquete and 



Volcan de Chiriqui, 4,500 to 11,000 ft., Panama). 

 [Elainia] frantzii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 352, no. 5329. 

 Elainea, sp.?, Salvin, Ibis, 18G6, 194 (Duenas, Guatemala). 



SOUTH AMERICAN REFERENCES. 



Elainea pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870 (pub. Apr. 1, 1871), 833, 



fig. 3 (Bogota, Colombia; coll. P. L. Sclater). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 781 (Venezuela). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 



302 (Bucaramanga, Colombia; crit.). 

 E[lainea] pudica Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 835. 

 [Elainea'] pudica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 49. 

 Elainea frantzii (not of Lawrence ?) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1879, 513 (Antioqnia, Colombia; descr. eggs). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xiv, 1888, 145, part (Bogota, Santa Elena, and Antioquia, Colombia; 



Merida, Venezuela) .^Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 



1888, 36, part (Colombia; Venezuela). 

 [Elainea] frantzi Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 143 



(Bogota). 



EL^NIA FALLAX Sclater, 

 JAMAICAN EL.a:NIA. 



Adult male. — Above plain olive, the pileuni darker with a posterior- 

 central, mostly concealed, patch of white; tail deep grayish brown 

 (deep hair brown) with olive edgings; wings dusky, the greater and 

 middle coverts broadly tipped with olive-buff or olivaceous white 

 (producing two distinct bands), the greater coverts and primaries 

 narrowly edged with pale olive (sometimes inclining to olivaceous 

 white on the latter), the secondaries (except basally) more broadly 

 edged with pale olive-yellow or yellowish white ; sides of head lighter 

 olive than pileum, the supraloral, orbital, and suborbital regions still 

 paler (indistinctly pale yellowish olive or dull olive-whitish); under 

 parts pale olive-yellow, passing into dull grayish white (more or less 

 tinged with pale olive-yellow) on upper throat and chin, the chest 

 faintly shaded with pale olive, or grayish olive, the anal region nearly 

 white; axillars and under wing-coverts clear pale olive-yellow; max- 

 illa dusky brown, mandible paler brown, dusky terminally; legs 

 and feet black or dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 123-136 

 (129); wing, 66-70 (68.2); tail, 59.5-64.5 (62.4); exposed culmen, 

 10-11 (10.4); tarsus, 18.5-19 (18.7); middle toe, 10-11 (10.5).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but white crown-patch 

 usually smaller; length (skins), 127-146 (139); wing, 66-68.5 (67); 

 tail, 61-65 (63); exposed culmen, 9.5-10.5 (10.2); tarsus, 18-19 

 (18.6); middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.1).« 



a Four specimens. 



