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14. Elainea placens. 



Contraniaestre pardo verdoso corona amarilla, Azara, Apunt. ii. 



p. 57 (?). 

 Sylvia vindicate, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xi. p. 171; ul. Enc. Moth. 



p. 433(?). 

 Muscicapara viridicata, d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 325 (certe). 

 Helinaea viridicata, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 11. 

 Muscicapa elegant, d'Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 52 (Bolivia). 

 Elainea placens, Scl. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 46 (Mex. et Guatemala), 



1861, p. 407, et 1870, p. 835 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 217 ; Scl. et Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 123, pi. 4. f. 2; iid. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 359, 1868, 



pp. 628, 631, 1873, p. 279, 1876, pp. 16, 17 ; iid. Nomenel. p. 48 ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 194; id. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 197; Lawr. Ann. 



L. N. Y. vii. p. 328, ix. pp. 112, 201; Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, 



p. 307 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 325 (Peru) ; Boiward, P. Z. S. 1883, 



p. 447 (Costa Rica). 

 Elainea grata, Cab. J.f. O. 1883, p. 216 (Tucuman) ? 



Above dull olive-green ; head dark cinereous, slightly crested, 

 with a large basal spot of bright yellow; lores and eye-region 

 mixed with whitish : wings and tail ashy black, with slight margins 

 of the same colour as the back : beneath pale cinereous ; belly, cris- 

 sum, and under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow ; bill blackish ; 

 feet dark brown : whole length 5 inches, wing 2'5, tail 2-5. Female 

 similar. 



Hub. From Mexico throughout Central and Southern America to 

 Brazil and Bolivia. 



As will be seen by the list of localities we have now specimens of 

 this species, originally described as E. placens from Mexican skins 

 and generally known under that name, from Southern Peru and 

 Brazil. I have examined specimens of Muscicapara viridicata of 

 d'Orbigny from Bolivia, and find that they cannot be separated 

 from the Peruvian bird. It is perhaps a little doubtful whether 

 Azara's bird, upon which Vieillot founded his Sylvia viridicata, 

 should be referred here ; but it is quite probable that the species 

 also extends to Paraguay, and that the Elainea grata of Cabanis 

 from Tucuman also belongs to it. But I am unwilling to alter the 

 name to E. viridicata until a further supply of southern specimens 

 has been obtained. To employ the name elegans, which d'Orbigny 

 and Lafresnaye first assigned to their Bolivian birds, would only 

 create fresh difficulties by confounding this species with E. elegans 

 of Pelzeln. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Cordova, Mexico (Salle). 



b. Ad. sk. Tres Marias Is., W. Mexico 



(Forrer). 



c. e. Ad. sk. Mugeres I., Yucatan (Gaumer). 

 f-l. Ad. sk. Cozumel I., Yucatan (Gaumer). 

 m. 2 ad. sk. Volcan de Agua, above San 



Diego (Salvin). 

 n, o. Ad. sk. Betaluleu, Guatemala (Salvi?i). 

 p. Ad. sk. Choctum, Vera Paz (Salvin). 



q. Ad. sk. Choctum, Vera Paz. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



