during a Cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 311 



Ehenia martinica subpagana Ridgw. Birds of North and 

 Middle Amer. pt. iv. p. 429. 



Elainia pagana Nicoll, Ibis^ 1904, p. 566. 



Two specimens which I obtained on Grenada and a 

 large series which I have examined in the British Museum 

 collection are undoubtedly distinct from birds found in 

 St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, and Guada- 

 loupe (typical E. martinica). They very closely resemble, 

 if not actually identical with, the form found on the neigh- 

 bouring mainland (Venezuela and Colombia), Trinidad and 

 Tobago, If, therefore, we follow Count Berlepsch's recent 

 proposal, and accept Thunberg's original name flavogaster 

 for the mainland bird, instead of martinica (from which 

 purely Antillean group both the mainland and Grenada bird 

 are quite distinct), then this form becomes E. flavogaster. 



If, on the other hand, the Grenada bird is recognised as 

 differing from the mainland form and as being worthy 

 of subspecific rank, another name than subpagana must 

 be found for it; for this name is referable to a race which 

 ranges further to the west through Central America, from 

 South Mexico to Panama, and it is hardly possible that 

 those from Grenada and the Grenadines can be identical 

 with it. 



We should thus have E. flavogaster representing the 

 typical bird from Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil, while 

 E. flavogaster subpagana would represent the more western 

 race ; and if the Grenada and Grenadine bird is to be 

 distinguished by a name, I would suggest E. flavogaster 

 grenadensis. By this arrangement the name martinica is 

 reserved for the purely Antillean races, which are easily 

 distinguished from the mainland forms. 



Myiarchus oberi nugator. 



Myiarchus oberi nugator Biley, Smithson. Misc. Coll. 

 1904, p. 275. 



Specimens of this Tyrant which I obtained on Grenada 

 and from St. Vincent, and others which I have examined in 

 the British: Museum collection, can be distinguished from 



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