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back is more grayish, the lower parts are not as yellowish, and the 

 concealed white crown stripe is lacking. The feathers of the pileum 

 are deep olive changing to deep gull gray basally with a light shaft 

 streak. Over each eye are a few feathers of the adult plumage com- 

 ing in, the secondaries are edged distally on the external margin with 

 deep olive buff, and the abdomen is lighter than in the adult bird. 



In 1927 on May 17 and 18 Wetmore found the elaenia along the 

 trail leading up from the Rio Jimenoa beyond Jarabacoa to El Rio 

 and Constanza and recorded it again in retracing this journey on 

 May 30. From May 19 to 27 the birds were common about Con- 

 stanza and several were taken. Birds collected at this time were 

 in breeding condition. Abbott in 1919 noted that specimens taken 

 in mid April were not yet mating. At times they were found in the 

 tops of the tallest pines and again were seen hopping about low down 

 among the guava bushes. Ciferri secured one on Monte Viejo at 

 1,200 to 1,500 meters elevation in May, 1929. 



The first specimen definitely recorded from Haiti is a male shot 

 by Abbott near Furcy on June 13, 1920. In 1927 Wetmore found 

 them common on La Selle, directly opposite Furcy, from April 9 to 

 15, taking one on the first date mentioned at an elevation of 1,500 

 meters below Morne Cabaio. Among the pines on the summit of 

 the ridge the birds were common and were encountered daily. Here 

 they were found mainly in the pine forests, and were seldom seen in 

 the rain-forest. On one cool morning following heavy rains on the 

 previous evening two were seen hopping about among weeds and 

 fallen branches only a few inches from the ground, seeking the 

 warmth of the rising sun. Bond found them common on La Selle, 

 and also observed them at 1,500 meters altitude on Morne Basile in 

 the Montaignes Noires of northern Haiti, collecting one there on 

 March 6, 1928. He secured another on Morne Malanga January 22 

 of the same year. 



In an adult female taken by Wetmore at Constanza May 27, 

 1927, the base of the mandible was pale brownish white, the re- 

 mainder of the bill blackish, the iris Hay's brown and the tarsus 

 and toes black. 



We do not agree with Hellma} 7 r that this species should be con- 

 sidered a race of Elaenia fallax. 



The type specimen on which Cory based the name cherriei (Field 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. no. 31844), a male collected by G. K. Cherrie at Cat- 

 arrey, D. R., January 31, 1895 (orig. no. 4706), is a bird in fresh 

 plumage, very yellow on the abdomen, with the breast strongly 

 washed with olive brown. It has the following measurements ; wing 

 71.2, tail 68.0, culmen from base 12.5, tarsus 20.0 mm. 



