NO. 1281. BIRDS COLLECTED IN PARA G UA Y—OBERHOLSER. 137 



MYIOPAGIS CANICEPS (Swainson). 



Tj/rannula caniceps Swainson, Birds Brazil, 1835 (?), pi. xlix. 



^fl/lopaglf! caniceps Shxrpe, Hand-List Gen. Spec. Birds, III, 1!)()1, p. 117. 



A lino adult male of this very rare and very distinct species is in the 

 collection. It dili'er.'; in some respects from typical members of the 

 u-enus }[i/ln2>a(j/K in its more slender 1)111 and greater relative length of 

 the two outer primaries, but is undoul)tedly much more satisfactorily 

 placed here than in EJxn/a. This specimen may be descril)ed as 

 follows: 



Crow^n plumbeous, with slat}^ shaft streaks and washed with olive 

 green; the l)asal portion of the crest feathers white, mixed with pale 

 sulphur yellow, forming a lengthened, almost concealed vertical spot; 

 remainder of upper surface rather paler than the crown, olive green, 

 brightest and clearest on rump, increasingly mingled with plumbeous 

 anteriorly until completely merging into the color of the pileum; tail 

 fuscous, bordered with olive green; wings sepia brown, the lesser 

 coverts and outer margins of primaries olive green, the outer edges of 

 secondaries, with tips of greater and lesser wing-coverts pale sulphur 

 yellow; the sides of head and neck plumbeous, mixed with greenish on 

 the latter, the auriculars with whitish shaft streaks, the eye ring and 

 suborbital region mixed svith grayish white; lower surf ace dull white, 

 the breast and sides of throat shaded with plumbeous, the sides, flanks 

 and crissum tinged with sulphur yellow, this on the sides slightly 

 mingled with greenish; lining of wing pale sulphur yellow; inner mar- 

 gins of wing-quills butfy white. ''Iris bufiV Length of wing, 59 mm. ; 

 tail, 5-1 mm.; exposed culmen, 1>.,5 nmi.; tarsus. 18 mm.; middle toe, 

 11. T) mm. 



EL.<ENIA PAGANA PAGANA (Lichtenstein). 



Mnscicupa pjarjana Lichtenstein, Verz. Doul)l., 1823, p. 54. 



Elaenea pagana Cabanis, in Schombnrgk's Reis. Guian., Ill, 184S, i>. 701. 



One female. ''Iris brown.'' 



PHYLLOMYIAS SALVADORII (Dubois). 



PJujUomytas berlepschi Salvadori, Boll. Mas. Torino, XII, 1897, No. 292, p. 13 



(not Sclater). 

 PJiyUomyias hremrostrh var. mlradora Dubois, Synop. Avium, Ft. 4, 1900, p. 238. 



A single adult specimen belongs undoubtedh^ to this newly descri])ed 

 species. It measures as follows: Wing, 02.5 mm.; tail, 00 mm.; 

 exposed culmen, 8 mm.; tarsus, 18 mm.; middle toe, 10.5 mm. 

 "Iris brown." 



