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4. Elainea martinica. 



Muscicapa martinicana cristata, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 362. 



Muscicapa martinica, Linn. S. N. i. p. 325. 



Tvrannula martinica, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 375. 



Elainea martinica, Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 169 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 271 (S. Lucia), 1874, p. 175 (Barbadoes), et 1879, p. 765 (Mont- 

 serrat) ; Semper, P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 650; Scl. et Salv. No mend, p. 48; 

 Pelz. Ibis, 1873, p. 113 ; Laivr, P. U. S. N. M. i. pp. 59, 191,270, 

 357, 458, 487, et iii. p. 256 ; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 41 (St.Yincent) ; 

 Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, p. 489 (Montserrat). 



Elainea riisii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 314, 1861, p. 406, et 1870, p. 834 ; 

 id. Cat. A. B. p. 217 ; Newton, Ibis, 1860, p. 307 (St. Thomas). 



Muscicapa albicapilla, Vieill. Ois. a? Am. Sej)t. p. 66, pi. 37. 



Above dark olivaceous ; head subcrested, with a well-marked 

 white basal spot : wings and tail blackish brown ; double bar across 

 the wing-coverts and outer edges of external secondaries dirty white, 

 rest of wing-feathers and tail-feathers with narrow olivaceous outer 

 margins : beneath pale cinereous, with a slight olivaceous tinge on 

 the flanks and crissum ; bill dark brown, base of the lower mandible 

 reddish ; feet black : whole length 6 inches, wing 3*2, tail 3. Female 

 like the male, but with the vertical spot less apparent or absent. 



Hah. Antilles, from St. Thomas down to Barbadoes. 



This species is very similar to E. pagana, but is of a nearly uni- 

 form pale cinereous brown. As in E. pagana, there is much indi- 

 vidual variation. 



a. Ad. sk. St. Thomas (Biise). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of E. riisii.) 

 b,c. 3 2 ad. sk. St. Thomas (Salvin). Sclater Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Montserrat (Sturge). Sclater Coll. 



e. <3 ad. sk. Dominica (Ober). Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad.sk. Dominica (Ober). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g,h. Ad. sk. St. Lucia (Semper). Sclater Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Barbadoes (Briggs). Sclater Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Barbadoes. Sir R. Schombur°:k 



[P.]. 



k. Ad.sk. Barbadoes ( \] edderburn). Jardine Coll. 



I. Jr. sk. Grand Cayman I. (Richard- Sclater Coll. 



son). 



5. Elainea albiceps. 



Muscipeta albiceps, cVOrb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 47 ; d'Orb. Voy., Ois. 



p. 319. 

 Elainea albiceps, Scl. P.Z.S. 1858, p. 71 (Ecuador), 1861, p. 406 



(Bolivia et Peru), 1867, p. 327 (Chili), et 1870, p. 834 (Honduras); 



id. Cat. A. B. p. 217 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 174, 568 (\V. 



Peru), 1873, pp. 185, 279 (Peru), 1876, p. 16 (Peru), 1878, p. 433, 



et 1879, p. 614 (Bolivia) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 48 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



p. 107 ; Burn/. Ibis, 1878, p. 60 (rep. Arg.) ; White, P. Z.S. 1882, 



p. 606 (rep. Arg.) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 423 (W. Peru); id. Ibis, 



1885, p. 294 (Br. Guiana) ; Tacz. Orn. Per. ii. p. 203 ; Berl. et Jher. 



Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 1885, p. 133 (S. Brazil) ; Scl. et Huds.Arg.Om. 



i. p. 145. 



