i8S6.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 2 1 



and tail dark brown, some of the primaries delicately edged with 

 yellowish white on the outer web, more broadly so on the basal por. 

 tion of the inner webs, secondaries tipped with the same color; 

 wing-coverts tipped with yellowish white, forming two imperfect 

 wing-bands. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 6.50; wing, 3.25; tail, 3; tarsus, .87; bill, .35. 



Habitat. Lesser Antilles. 



Elainia fallax Scl. 



Elainea fallax ScL. P. Z. S. iS6i, p. 76; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 217 (1S62). 

 — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 199. — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 352 

 (1869). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 48 (1873). — A. & E. 

 Newton, flandb. Jamaica, p. 107 (iSSi). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 

 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — "Dusky olive green; wings and tail fuscous, edged exter- 

 nally with olivaceus. The coverts and the secondaries widely 

 margined externally with greenish white; pileum subcrested, inte- 

 riorly white; beneath yellowish: the throat washed with olivaceus; 

 bill dusky horn color, whitish at base ; feet black. 



"Length, 5.2; wing, 2.7; tail, 2.5; tarsus, .75." (Sclater, orig. 

 descr. transl.) 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Elainia cotta Gosse. 



Elainea cotta Gosse, Ann. N. H. 2d ser. Ill, p. 257 (1849). — Albrecht, 

 J. f. O. 1862, p. 198.— Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 218 (1862).— March, 

 Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 289.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 

 352 (1869). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 48 (1873). — A. & 

 E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 107 (1S81). — Cory, List Bds. W. 

 L p, 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — ^General plumage above grayish olive; top of head 

 brown ; a partially concealed patch of bright yellow on the crown ; 

 throat grayish ; underparts pale yellowish white; pale yellow on the 

 belly; wings and tail olive brown; secondaries narrowly edged 

 with yellowish. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 5.25; wing, 2.65; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .55; bill, .38. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Genus Pitangus Swains. 



Pitangtis SwAiNSON, Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 165 (1828). 



