342 Mr. P. R. Lowe on Birds collected 



pecker, which agree Avith Mr. Cory's original description. I 

 have never met with its Cuban ally. 



El^nia martinica rush. 



Elainea riisii Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1860, p. 314. 



Elainea martinica Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 582. 



El(snia ?narti'nica caijmanensis Berlepsch, Proc. Fourth 

 Internat. Orn. Congr. 1907, p. 394. 



Count Berlepsch has lately separated this Tyrant on the 

 ground that it " differs from true E. martinica of the 

 Windward Islands in being much paler and more uniform 

 greyish-brown (less mottled) on the upper parts.'' lie says 

 also, " in colour they agree with E. riisii from St. Thomas 

 and Cura(jao, but have the large measurements of E. 

 martinica.^' 



I have only three specimens from the Grand Cayman, 

 but I have carefully examined a fine series collected by 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe and Mr. Nicoll, while I have compared 

 them with examples from St. Thomas in the British iMuseum 

 and my own collection, and they appear so similar that with 

 all regard to such an authority as Count Berlepsch it appears 

 to me that it would have been better to have referred this 

 form to E. martinica riisii, which I venture to do. My 

 examples from St. Thomas certainly give me the impression 

 of being slightly smaller than examples from the Grand 

 Cayman, bat when measurements are taken the differences 

 are very slight indeed. 



I notice that Mr. Ridgway (' Birds of North and Middle 

 America,' part iv. pp. 428, 429) has included examples of 

 E. m. riisii with true E. martinica ; but the former bird is 

 constantly and uniformly very much paler, and is also 

 noticeably smaller, than examples from Dominica, Martinique, 

 St. Lucia, and St. Vincent. 



From a geological point of view this form, E. m. i^iisii, 

 ought to be found in Porto liico, Culebra, St. Thomas, 

 St. John, and the whole of the Virgin Islands, which are all 

 situated on the same submarine elevation. 



With the form or forms which are found in the happy 



