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Specimens examined. — Peru: Idma (5,000 feet), Santa Ana, 6; 

 Chinchao, 1; Uchco, 2; Inca Mine, 1; San Miguel (5,000 feet), 

 Urubamba Canon, 4; Vitoc, Garita del Sol, 1; Huaynapata, Mar- 

 capata, 3; Utcuyacu (4,800 feet), Junin, 8; Rumicruz (9,700 feet), 

 Junin, 5; Chelpes (7,500 feet), Junin, 5; Santa Eita, Urubamba 

 Canon, 1; unspecified, 1 (the type). Total, 38. 



BASILEUTERUS CORONATUS ELATUS, now subspecies 



Basileuierus coronatus (not Myiodioctes coronattis von Tschudi) Sclateb, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, p. 137 (Pallatanga, Ecuador).— Baibd, 

 Rev. Amer. Birds, 1865, p. 242 (diag.), p. 244, part (Ecuador). — Sclateb, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865. p. 284, part (refs. ; diag.; range). — 

 Taczanowski. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1882, vol. 3. p. 6 (Cococho, Ray- 

 urmana, Chachapoyas, and Tamiapampa. Peru)'. — Heine and Reichenow, 

 Nom. Mus. Heineani Orn., 1882, p. 14, part (Pallatanga, Ecuador). — 

 VON Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1884, p. 286 

 (Cayaudeled, Tribulpata, and Cechce, Ecuador; crit). — Taczanowski, 

 Orn. Perou, vol. 1, 1884, p. 476, part. Tables, p. 29, part (Cococho, Ray- 

 urmana, Cliachapoyas, and Tamiapampa. Peru; descr. ; refs.; range). — 

 Sharps. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 10, 1885, p. 390, part (Jima and Palla- 

 tanga, Ecuador; descr.; refs.). — Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 .1885, p. 423 (plum.; faunal range). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. 

 Zool. ed Anat. comp. Torino, vol. 15, No. 357, 1899, p. 9 (Nanegal and 

 Niebli, Ecuador; refs.). — Goodfexlow, Ibis, 1901. p. 314 (Milligalli 

 and Canzacota, Ecuador; plum.). — MENfioAux, Mission Service Geog. 

 Mes. Arc Meridien Equat. Am^r. du Sud, vol. 9, pt. 1, 1911, p. B 73 (Nono 

 and Quito. Ecuador; Ecuador refs.).— Lonnberg and Rendahl, Ark. f. 

 Zool., vol. 14, No. 25, 1922, p, 78 (road to Nanegal, Ecuador; habits). — 

 Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 55, 1926, p. 601, part (Verda- 

 cooha, road to Nanegal, and Pallatanga, Ecuador; Ecuador refs.; crit.). 



Type. — No. 69,787, Collection Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, adult male; Pagma forest. Hacienda Jalancay, near 

 Chunchi (6,200-7,400 feet), Ecuador, March 24, 1911; Samuel N. 

 Rhoads. 



SubspeoifiG chmfocters. — Similar to Basileuierus coronatus coro- 

 natus, but averaging a little smaller ; upper parts in general less olive 

 greenish, more brownish in tone; throat paler gray; flanks and cris- 

 sum shaded with olive ocher ; and black lateral crown-stripes narrower 

 and less prominent, not meeting in front, while the orange rufous 

 coronal part is correspondingly larger. " Bill brown, darker above ; 

 feet nearly orange " (Fraser). 



Measurements. — Male: Wing, 66-71 (average, 68); tail, 57-61 

 (58.5); bill, 11-12 (11.5); tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22.5). Female (seven 

 specimens) : Wing, 60-65 (63) ; tail, 53-59 (55.5) ; bill, 11-12 (11.4) ; 

 tarsus, 21.5-24 (22.5). 



Range. — Subtropical Zone, Andes of Ecuador and northern Peru. 



