BIRDS OF XOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 423 



1902, 300 (Aruba, Cura^af), und Bonaire).— ("hapmax, Bull. .Viu. Mil*. X. H., 



1894, 39 (Monos I., Trinidad).— Robixson, Proc. U. S. Xat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 



673 (^largarita I., Venezuela).— Baxgs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 136 



(Santa Malta). 

 [Sublegatus] glaber Scl.\ter and Salvix, Xom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 49. 

 Sitblegatus brevirostris glaber Berlepsch and Hartert. Xovit. Z<^)ol.. ix. Apr.. 



1902, 45 (Altagraeia and Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela'. 

 Sublegatus fascial us glaber Berlepsch and Hellmayr. Journ. fur Om.. Jan.. 1905, 



5, in text. 

 [Elainia] glabra Gray, Hand-li.^t, i, 1869, 353, no. 5364. 

 Empidonax atrirostris Lawrexce, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Phila.. 1871 (pub. Dec. 5?). 



234 (Venezuela ?;« coll. G. X. Lawrence). 

 Sublegatus arenarum (not Elainea arenarum Salvin) Baxgs, Auk. xviii. Jan.. 1901. 



30 (San Miguel I., Bay of Panama). — Thayer and Baxgs. Bull. Mu.*. Comp. 



Zool.. xlvi. 1905. 152 (San Miguel and Saboga islands. Bay of Panama): xlvi. 



1906, 218 (Sabana de Panama). 

 [Sublegatus] arenarum Sharpe. Hand-list. iii. 1901, 125. part. 



Genus EL.-^NIA Sundevall. 



Elxniab Slxuevall, Svensk. vet.-Ak. Handl., 1835 (1836). 89. (T\-pe. Musci- 



capa pagana Lichtenstein = Pipra flaiogaster Thunbei^. * 

 Elania (emendation) Gray. list Gen. Birds. 1840, 33. 

 Elaenea (emendation) Cab axis, W'iegmann's Archiv. fur Xaturg.. 1847, 250. 

 Elainia (emendation) Reichexbach, Av. Syst. Xat., 1S50, pi. Ixv, fig. 

 Elainea (emendation) Cabaxis and Heixe, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 59. 

 Elainia (emendation) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 554. 

 ■Elainea (emendatiom Sclater. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1860, 313. 

 Elsnea (emendation) Allex. Bull. Am. Mus. X'. H.. ii. 1889, 232. 



:Medium-sized to small T^Tannidte (wing 65-95 mm.) of dull colora- 

 tion, with bill small and narrow (exposed cidmen shorter than middle 

 toe without claw and at least twice as long as distance from nostril to 

 tip of maxilla), and tarsus much less than twice as long as middle toe 

 without claw. 



Bill about half as long as head, or less, narrow, its width at frontal 

 antia? equal to not more than half the length of exposed culmen. and 

 very much less than twice its depth at same point: exposed culmen 

 shorter than middle toe without claw, distinctly (sometimes sharply) 

 ridged , straight or very nearly so for greater part . moderately decurved 

 terminally, the tip of maxilla minutely, or at least not strongly, unci- 

 nate ; gonys equal to or slightly longer than mandibular rami, straight 

 or faintly convex: maxillary tomiiim straight or famtly concave, dis- 

 tinctly notched subterminally. Nostril exposed, roundish or longi- 

 tudinally oval, with distinct though rather narrow superior membrane . 

 this sometmies inclosing the anterior margin also. Rictal bristles 

 obvious bu-t small, the feathers of chin and fn>ntal antia? with ilistinct 

 bristle-like points. Wing rather long, the longest primaries exceeding 



<i The type-specimen is labeled "•Cartagena." 

 6 From KXaivtoc, oleagineus. 



