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TYRANNID.E. 



3. Elainea gigas. 



Elainea albiceps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 71 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 217 (nee 



Lafr. et D'Orb.). 

 Elainea gigas, Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 831 ; Scl et Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, 



p. 185, et 1876, p. 16 (S. Peru); iid. Nomencl. p. 48; Tacz. P.Z.S. 



1874, p. 536, et 1882, p. 19 ; id. Om. Per. ii. p. 265. 



Head and wing of Elainea gigas. (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 832.) 



Above dark olivaceous brown ; head crested, with a large vertical 

 spot ; wings and tail dark brown ; a double band across the wing- 

 coverts and external margins of the outer secondaries dirty white ; 

 rest of wing-feathers and tail-feathers slightly margined with oliva- 

 ceous : beneath, throat grey ; breast and flanks greyish olivaceous ; 

 middle of belly yellow ; under wing-coverts and crissum yellowish 

 grey ; bill reddish brown, lighter at the base ; feet blackish : whole 

 length 6 inches, wing 3-8, tail 3*3. Female similar. 



Hob. Ecuador and Peru. 



This species is chiefly distinguishable from E. pagana by its large 

 size ; but it is also darker above, and has a much larger white ver- 

 tical spot, which occupies nearly the whole of the interior of the 

 crest. 



a. Ad. sk. Rio Napo. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (Buckley). 



d. Ad. sk. Ecuador. 



e. Ad. sk. Huiro, S. Peru ( Whxte&y). 



f. Ad. sk. Cosnipata, S. Peru ( JVJiitelg). 



Sclater Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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