2^0 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire plumage glossy black, showing purple reflec- 

 tions on the back and wings; underparts glossy black, the purple 

 reflections slightly perceptible when held in the light; basal portion 

 of feathers on the body smoky gray; bill and feet black. 



Length (skin), 15; wing, 10.35; tail, 6; tarsus, 2; bill, 1.80. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



'•'■ Cyai?ocoi-ax pi/eatus" recorded from Jamaica, "proliably 

 a caged bird escaped," is a vSouth American species. First 

 given by Gosse (Bds. Jam, p. 30S, 1S47), and cited by later 

 authors. 



CorvHS ossifrag7is has been recorded from Cuba, but I find no 

 record of its actual capture. Dr. Gundlach writes me that the bird 

 does not occur there. 



Family TYRANNID.^. 



Genus Elainia Sundev. 

 Elainia Sundevall, Ornithol. System, p. 89 (1836). 



Elainia martinica (Linn.). 



Muscicapa martinica LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 325 (1766). — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



I, p. 930 (1788). — Lath. Ind. Orn. II, p. 483 (1790)- 

 ? Muscicapa albicapilla Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, p. 66 (1S07). 

 Myiobius martinicus Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 249, Sp. 27 (1846). 

 Tyranniila martinica Bp. Consp. I, p- 190 (1850). — Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Phila. i860, p. 375. 

 Elainca riisii ScL. P. Z. S. 1S60, p. 313. — Newton, Ibis, i860, p. 307. — 



Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 352 (1869).— Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. 



Forh. 1869, p. 584.— ScL. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 834. 

 Elainca martinica Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 169. — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 



352 (1869).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 271; ih. T874, p. 175.— Pelz. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 113. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 48 (1873). 



—Lawk. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 59, 191, 270, 257, 45S, 4S7 (1878). 



Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. x66 (iSSo).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 41. — Grisdale, Ibis, 18S2, p. 489. — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 



(1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above brownish olive : feathers on 

 the head having the basal portions white, forming a concealed white 

 patch on the crown; throat gray; breast gray, slightly tinged with 

 olive; sides, flanks, and crissum pale olive, mixed with whitish on 

 the middle of the belly; under wing-coverts pale yellowish ; wings 



