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10. Elainea martinica rush (Scl.). 



Elainea riisii, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 314. 



Elainea martinica, Scl. Cat. B. B. M. xiv. p. 141; Berl. 

 J. f. O. 1892, p. 85 (Curacao). 



I procured three specimens of this bird ou Mt. Christoffel, 

 but did not see it anywhere else. Mrs. Hartert thinks she 

 saw it on Bonaire, but no specimen was obtained. My skins 

 are in better plumage than those collected by Herr Peters, 

 but are also somewhat worn. They entirely agree with 

 specimens from St. Thomas. Specimens from Guadeloupe 

 and Dominica are slightly different, and it is advisable to 

 recognize Sclater's E. riisii (afterwards, in the e Catalogue of 

 Birds/ united with E. martinica by the same author) as a 

 subspecies. 



This is another instance of Curacao not having the conti- 

 nental form, but the West-Indian one, and also of a nearer 

 relationship to the St. -Thomas avifauna than to that of the 

 other Lesser Antilles. 



11. Myiarchus brevipennis, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. iii. 

 p. xii. 



Not very rare near Savonet and in other well-wooded 

 places. 



(Teters says (J. f. O. 1892, p. 118) that he saw a rather 

 large species of Tyrant through his glasses. From his de- 

 scription it cannot be any of those that are as yet known 

 from Curacao.) 



12. Sublegatus glaber, Scl. et Salv. ; Berl. J. f .0. 1892, 

 p. 84 (Curacao). 



My specimens of this bird agree with the type from Caracas 

 (Venezuela) in the British Museum. It occurs on all the 

 three islands and is not rare, but is by no means common. 

 The wings of my eight specimens measure 2"58 to 2*8 inches, 

 mostly 2"6 and 2'65 inches. 



This species can be distinguished without difficulty from 

 Sublegatus plutyrhynchns from Bahia, Brazil. 

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