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318. Legatus leucophaius (Vieillot). 



Legatus albicollis Salvin and Godmax, Ibis, 1880, 124 (Minca). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 155 (Minca).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Xat. Hist.. XIII, 1900, 147 (Bonda, Minca, and Jordan). 



Nine specimens : Boncla, Minca, Mamatoco, La Tigrera, and Santa 

 Marta. 



For the specific name here used consult Hellmayr, Vcrhandlungcn 

 der Ornithologischcn Gcscllschaft in Bayern, XIV, 1920, 283. 



Much of the variation in this species appears to be of a seasonal 

 character, specimens in fresh plumage having the under parts more 

 heavily washed with yellow than those taken at other times. 



For some reason this flycatcher is not a common bird in this region. 

 It is confined in the main to the foothills section, a few straggling 

 down into the coastal plain. The birds frequent open woodland or 

 cultivated lands, roadsides, and the borders of streams, perching high 

 up in the trees, and in their movements are very sluggish. The call- 

 note is rather mournful in character. 



319. Elaenia viridicata pallens (Bangs). 



Myiopagis placens (not Elainea placens Sclater) Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 



Washington, XII, 1898, 136 ("Santa Marta")- — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 148 (Bonda and Minca). 

 Myiopagis placens pallens Bangs, Proc. New England Zool. Club, III, 1902, 



85 ("Santa Marta"; orig. descr. ; type now in Mus. Comp. Zool.; crit.). 



— Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XLVI, 1905. 151, in text 



("Santa Marta": crit.). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXI, 1905, 



278 (ref. orig. descr.; syn.).— Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, IV, 



1907, 400 (diag. ; range; ref. orig. descr.). 

 Elaenia viridicata placens von Berlepsch, Ornis, XIV, 1907, 427 (" Santa 



Marta" and Bonda, ex Bangs and Allen; crit.; references). 

 Elccnia pallens Brabourne and Chubb, Birds S. Am., I, 1912, 291 (ref. orig. 



descr. ; range). 

 Myiopagis viridicata pallens Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 



1917, 457, 459 (Bonda; crit.). 



Additional records: La Concepcion (Brown). 



Fifteen specimens: Mamatoco, La Tigrera, and Don Diego. 



Eltrnia viridicata, or, as it has been known until recently, Myiopagis 

 placens, is a species which seems to have suffered unduly at the hands 

 of systematic ornithologists, having been split up into a number of 

 barely recognizable races. The propriety of formally recognizing 



