154 TTEANIQD^!. 



tail blackish ; outer margins of wing-coverts and secondaries and 

 narrow tips of tail-feathers whitish : beneath, throat and breast pale 

 cinereous whito ; belly and under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow ; 

 bill horn-colour ; feet blackish : whole length 5-5 inches, wing 2"7, 

 tad 2-6. 



Hub. Costa Rica. 



Only known from the type specimen. 



a. <J ad. sk. Punta Arenas, Costa Rica (0. Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Salvin). (Type of the species.) 



24. Elainea affinis. 



Elainea affinis, Burm. Si/st. Ueb. ii. p. 477 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 108 ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 838 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 49. 

 Muscicapa jocosa, Lund, MS. 



Above grey ; rump yellowish ; wings blackish ; wing-coverts and 

 outer secondaries externally margined with greyish white ; tail 

 black, with a broad yellowish-white band at the base, and slight 

 whitish end-band : beneath, throat and breast pale cinereous ; belly 

 and under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow : whole length 6 inches, 

 wing 3-2, tail 2-8. Female similar. 



Hal. S.E. Brazil. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Lagoa Santa, Minas, Brazil {Lund). Sclater Coll. 



b. j ad. sk. Rio das Pedras, Brazil (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Bahia, Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



52. EMPIDAGRA. 



Type. 



Suiriri, d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 336 (1840) E. suiriri. 



Euipidagra, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 59 (1859) .... E. suiriri. 



Empidagra comes very close to Elainea, but may be distinguished 

 by its stronger bill. I am only acquainted with the typical species 

 from Paraguay and Argentina, but there is said to be another in 

 Peru and Guiana. 



1. Empidagra suiriri. 



Suiriri ordinaria, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 111. 



Muscicapa suiriri, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxi. p. 487 ; id. Enc. Meth. ii. 



p. 820 ; a" Orb. et Lafr. Syn. Av. i. p. 51. 

 Fluvicola suiriri, Hartl. Ind. Az. p. 12. 

 Suiriri suiriri, <TOrb, Voy., Ois. p. 336. 

 Taenioptera suiriri, Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 519 ; id. La-Plata Reise, 



ii. p. 460. 

 Empidagra suiriri, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 59 ; Scl. et Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1869, p. 633, et 1879, p. 614; Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 197. 

 Pachyrbaniphus albescens, Gould, Zool. Voy. l Beagle] iii. p. 50, 



t. xiv. 

 Elainea albescens, Bp. Consp. i. p. 186 ; Burm. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 634 



(Buenos Ayres). 



Above cinereous ; wings and tail blackish ; all the wing-coverts 



