230 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



Elainea placens Authors, cf. Scl., Cat. Birds. Brit. Mus. XVI. 



p. 148. 



Not uncommon about Caicara where they frequent the -sparsely 

 wooded savanna regions. 



MYIOPAGIS GAIMARDI (D'Orbingy). 

 Muscicapara gaimardii D'Orb., Voy. dans 1'Am. Merid., IV. Ois. 1839. P- 



326 (Yuracares, Bolivia). 

 Elainea gaimardi Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 44 (Caicara, Maipures, 



Munduapo, Orinoco River, Suapure and La Union, Caura River, 



Venezuela). 

 E[lainopsis] 1 gaimardii Ridgway, Birds X. and M. Amer., IV. 1907. 



p. 800 (Santa Marta, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Brazil). 



MYIOPAGIS FLAVIVERTEX (Sclater). 



Elainea ftavivertex Scl., P. Z. S. 1887. p. 49; Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 45 

 (.Munduapo, Orinoco River, Venezuela). 



This species was met with on my first expedition only. In the 

 neighborhood of Munduapo it was not uncommon. It is easily dis- 

 tinguished from M. viridicata by its smaller size, and the deeper, richer, 

 olive green above, deeper yellow on the belly and heavier wash of olive 

 on the lower throat and upper breast. The yellowish tips to the greater 

 and median line coverts forming two well defined bands are also 

 distinctive. 



MYIOPAGIS CINEREA (Pelzeln). 



Elainea macilvaini Berlepsch & Hartert (not Lawrence), Novit. Zool. 



IX. 1902. p. 44 (Saupure, Caura River, Venezuela). 

 Elainea cinerea Pelz., Orn. Bras. II. 1870. pp. 108, 180; Berlepsch 



& Hartert, p. 45 (Saupure, Caura River, Venezuela). 



E[laenia] cinerea Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., XV. 1908. p. 47 (Suapure, 

 Caura River, Venezuela). 



This species was not observed on the Orinoco proper by the 



!Mr. Ridgway in a paper in the proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. XVIII. 1905. 

 pp. 207-210, describing new genera of Tyrannidae. Pipridae and Cotingidae, removes Elaenia elegans Pelzeln 

 (-Musctcapara gaimardii D'Orbigny) from the Tyrannidae and constitutes it as the type of a new genus 

 (.t-lainopsis) of Cotingidae, on the ground that it has pycnaspidean tarsi and that the basal phalanx of the 

 middle toe is wholly united to the outer toe. However, I find these characters shared by all the species 

 ot Myiopagis that I have examined viridicala, flanivertex, macilvaini and caniceps. 



