230 BROOKLYN institute; MUSKUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Elainea placens Authors, cf. Scl., Cat. Birds, Brit. Mtis. XVI. i! 



p. 148. 



Not uncomnion about Caicara where they frequent the sparsely 

 wooded savanna regions. 



Myiopagis gaimardi (D'Orbingy). 

 Muscicapara gaimardii D'Orb., Voy. dans I'Am. Merid., IV. Ois. 1839. p. 

 326 (Yuracares, Bolivia). 



Elainea gaimardi Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 44 (Caicara, Maipures, 

 Munduapo, Orinoco River, Suapure and La Union, Caura River, 

 Venezuela). 



E[lainopsisY gaimardii Ridgway, Birds N. and M. Amer., IV. 1907. 

 p. 800 (Santa Marta, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil). 



Myiopagis flavivERTEx (Sclater). 



Elainea Uavivertex Scl., P. Z. S. 1887. p. 49; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 45 

 (Munduapo, Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



This species was met with on my first expedition only. In the 

 neighborhood of Munduapo it was not uncomnion. It is easily dis- 

 tinguished from M. viridicata by its smaller size, and the deeper, richer, 

 olive green above, deeper yellow on the belly and heavier wash of olive 

 on the lower throat and upper breast. The yellowish tips to the greater 

 and median line coverts forming two well defined bands are also 

 distinctive. 



Myiopagis cinerEa (Pelzeln). 



Elainea macih'ahii Berlepsch & Hartert (not Lawrence), Novit. Zo.ol. 



IX. 1902. p. 44 (Saupure, Caura River, Venezuela). 

 Elainea cinerea Pelz., Orn. Bras. II. 1870. pp. 108, 180; Berlepsch 



& Hartert, p. 45 (Saupure, Caura River, Venezuela). 



B[laenia] cinerea Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., XV. 1908. p. 47 (Suapure, 

 Caura River, A'enezuela). 



This species was nbt observed on the Orinoco proper by the 



'Mr. Ridgway in a paper in the proceedings of tlie Biological Society of Washington. XVIII. igos. 

 pp. 207-210, describing new genera of Tyrannidae, Pipridae and Cotingidae, removes Elaetiia elegans Pelzeln 

 (=Muscicapara gaimardii D'Orbigny) from the Tyrannidae and constitutes it as the type of a new genus 

 (Elainopsis) of Cotingidae, on the ground that it has pycnaspidean tarsi and that the basal phalanx of the 

 middle toe is wholly united to the outer toe. However, I find these characters shared by all the species 

 of Myiopagis that I have examined — viridicata, ftaviverlex, macilvaini and caniceps. 



