51. ELAINEA. 



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10. Elainea frantzii. 



Elainea frantzii, Lawr. Ann. L. N. Y. viii. p. 172, et ix. p. 42 (Costa 

 Rica) ; Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. 307 ; Sal v. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 197 

 (Veragua); Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 835; Bouc. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 63 

 (Costa Rica); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 49; iid. P. Z.S. 1879, 

 p. 513 (Autioquia) ; Ridgw. P. U.S. N. M. v. p. 496, et vi. p. 393. 



Elainea pudica, Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 833 ; Scl. et Sale. P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 781 (Venezuela) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 49 ; Perl. J. f. O. 1884, 

 p. 302 (Bucararnanga). 



Head and wing of Elainea frantzii. (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 834.) 



Above dark olive-brown ; bead slightly crested, with a white basal 

 spot ; wings and tail blackish ; tips of the wing-coverts, forming 

 transverse bands, and outer margins of the external secondaries 

 whitish ; rest of wing- and tail-feathers slightly margined with 

 olivaceous : beneath pale olive-brown mixed with yellowish, brighter 

 in the middle of the belly, crissum, and under wing-coverts ; bill 

 brown, lower mandible reddish at the base; feet blackish : whole 

 length 6 inches, wing 3'2, tail 2-7. Female. Similar, but some- 

 times, if not always, without the white vertical spot. 



Hah. Guatemala, and Central America down to Panama, Colombia, 

 and Venezuela. 



1 had formerly supposed that E. frantzii had no white vertical 

 spot, and placed it accordingly in another section of the genus. But 

 this was an error, the white spot having been described by Mr. 

 Lawrence in his original diagnosis of the species, and being un- 

 doubtedly present in many specimens. I also find the white spot 

 present in some specimens of the Southern E. pudica, and am now in- 

 clined to regard this supposed species as inseparable from E. frantzii. 



a, b. c? 5 ad. ; c. San Pedro Martyr, Guatemala Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. (Salrin). 



d. $ ad. sk. Medio Monte, Guatemala (»S'a/- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



vin). 



e. Ad. sk. Guatemala. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. $ ad. sk. Volcan de Agua, above S. Diego Sclater Coll. 



(Salvin). 



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