Recently published Ornithological Works. 247 



dalcanar); Wall. Ibis, 1865, p. 391; Sclat. P.Z.S. 1878, 

 p. 673; Ogilvie-Grant, P.Z.S. 1888, p. 199. 



Reinwardtcenas crassirdstris, Salv. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 131. 



Adult. Above, head dusky brown ; occipital feathers 

 lengthened into a greyish-brown crest ; whole plumage slate- 

 colour, darkest on the upper surface ; three outer pairs of 

 tail-feathers with a lavender central bar. Sexes alike. 



Young. A young male (Guadalcanal 1 , ( Voy. of Herald') 

 in the British Museum, which is the type of the species, has 

 the head dark brown, tipped with dark chestnut ; the general 

 plumage above of a much darker slate-colour ; beneath dark 

 brown, passing into the slate of the adult. Iris reddish 

 brown ; bill and legs carmine {Woodford). Iris and orbital 

 skin carmine; bill and legs bright red. 



Hab. Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands. 



XXIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 



[Continued from p. 124.] 



34. Allen on the Genus Elainea. 



[Remarks on Individual and Seasonal Variation in a large Series of 

 Elainea from Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil, with a Revision of the 

 restricted Genus Elainea. By J. A. Allen. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 

 ii. p. 183.] 



The receipt of a fine series of Tyrants of the genus Elainea 

 in Mr. H. H. Smith's extensive collection from Matto Grosso 

 has induced Mr. Allen to take up this difficult subject. 

 Drawing upon other sources besides, Mr. Allen accumulated 

 about 400 specimens for comparison, and amongst them 

 several important types. 



Amongst the conclusions arrived at by Mr. Allen is that 

 the concealed white crest of Elainea is merely a feature of 

 the breeding-plumage in both sexes. This enables him to 

 unite Elainea mesoleuca with E. pagana, as has been already 

 suggested might have to be done, or rather with E. albiceps, 

 which is treated as a subspecies of E. pagana. The other 

 species of Elainea are noted and commented upon. As 

 Mr. Salvin has now positively decided that his Elainea 



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