BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 437 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Elainea fallax Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18(31,76, footnote (^Jamaica; coll. 

 P. L. Sclater), 407 (monogr.); 1870, 832, fig. 2 (redescribed); Cat. Am. Bird.s, 

 1862, 217; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 147.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1862, 199.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 231; Birds West Ind., 1889, 118; Cat. West 

 Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 130.— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 204 

 (crit.; synonymy). 



[Elainea] fallax Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 48. — Cory, List Birds 

 West Ind., 1885, 15.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 124. 



[Elainia] fallax Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 352, no. 5326. 



Elainia fallax Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 231 (synonymy and descr.); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 118. 



E[lainea] fallax Newton (A. & E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



EL^NIA CHERRIEI Cory. 

 HAITIAN EL.ffi:NIA. 



Similar to E. fallax, but much smaller, duller and grayer olive above, 

 and under parts much paler yellowish. 



Adult female. — Above plain deep grayish olive, the pileum slightly 

 darker and with a concealed postero-central patch of white, the 

 feathers of which are deep grayish olive for most of the exposed por- 

 tion; tail deep grayish brown (deep hair brown) with light grayish 

 olive edgings; wings dusky, the middle and greater coverts broadly 

 tipped with pale yellowish olive or dull olive-whitish, forming two 

 conspicuous bands, the secondaries edged (except basally) with the 

 same, the primaries and greater coverts more narrowly edged with 

 light grayish olive; sides of head similar in color to pileum but paler, 

 the supraloral region and a rather distinct orbital ring olive-whitish; 

 underparts pale primrose yellow, shaded on chest and sides (espe- 

 cially the former) with pale olive or olive-buff, the chin and upper 

 throat inclining to grayish wdiite; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 pale dull primrose yellow; maxilla dusky brown, mandible paler 

 brown, darker terminally; legs and feet black; length (skms), 123- 

 129 (126); wing, 61.5-64.5 (63); tail, 58.5-61.5 (60); exposed cul- 

 men, 10-10.5 (10.3); tarsus, 18.5-19.5 (19); middle toe, 10-11 

 (10. 5). « 



Island of Haiti (Catare and Aguacate, Santo Domingo), Greater 

 Antilles. 



?? Musdcapa albicapilla Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 66, pi. 37 (Santo 



Domingo). 

 Elainea cherriei Cory, Auk, xii, July, 1895, 279 (Catare, Santo Domingo; coll. 



Field Columbian Mus.). 

 [Elainea] cherriei Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 124. 

 Elainia cherriei Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Domingo, J89(), 17 (Catare, Sanlo 



Domingo). 



«Two specimens. 



