76 DR. p. L. SCLATER ON BIRDS FROM JAMAICA. [Feb. 26, 



Hallux f, not, therefore, so long as the tarsus. Intestine 8. The 

 stomachs of all four contamed fragments of insects, Coleoptera 

 chiefly ; I found no traces of seeds. On the 11 th of February the ova 

 of the female were still minute ; and in skinning the birds I noticed 

 a rank odour common to many Corvidce. A female was brought to 

 me still alive, and apparently uninjured, except a fracture of the leg. 

 It showed not the slightest pugnacity when handled, and lived several 

 hours. It had not any notion of applying the uninjured foot to a 

 flat surface, but kept it grasped. I put it on a perch. Whether from 

 pain or weakness I do not know ; but it immediately slipped round 

 and hung suspended head downwards by its sound foot for some 

 time, and then fell. I do not regard this as a satisfactory proof that 

 the bird habitually rests in this position ; but it is not impossible, 

 because, according to the ordinary theory of perching, that in which 

 the weight of the body is brought to bear is, with most birds, the 

 easiest position ; whereas this bird made no effort to keep upright, 

 but immediately slid round, as if that were the most available posture 

 for holding on. Of its nidification I have as yet learnt nothing. 

 Should this species prove new to science as well as an addition to 

 our Jamaica list, I would propose ' nigerrinms ' as the specific name, 

 if it is not already appropriated." 



34. Elainea cotta, Gosse, x\nn. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. iii. p. 257 

 (1849); 111. B. Jam. pi. 45. 



Four examples, in one of which the yellow crown is barely dis- 

 cernible. I have two examples of a second species of this genus 

 from Jamaica, which is, I suppose, undescribed*. Before I had an 

 opportunity of examining Mr. Osburn's specimens I was inclined to 

 believe the latter were Mr. Gosse's E. cotta ; but I now find that 

 they are quite different, — Elainea fallax, as I propose to call it, be- 

 longing to the section of the group with a concealed white crest as 

 in E. pagana ; whereas E. cotta is more nearly allied to E. placens 

 of Guatemala, and others, in which the crest is less concealed, and of 

 a bright yellow. 



35. PiTANGUS CAUDiFASciATUs (D'Orb.) : La Sagra,Cuba, pi. 12; 

 Gosse, B. Jam. p. 177. 



One example of this bird, which, although abnormal in colouring, 

 appears to be best placed with the Pitangi. 



36. Myiarchus validus, Cab. Orn. Not. ii. p. 351. — Tyran- 

 mila gossii, Bp. Consp. p. 189. — Tyrannus crinitus, Gosse, p. 186, 

 nee Americanorum. 



Two ex. of this species. 



* Elainea fallax, sp. nov. 



Obscure olivaceo-viridis, alis caudaque fuscis, hac olivaceo e.vtus limbata, illarum 

 tectricibus et secundariis virescenti-albo extus late marc/inaiis : pileo sttb- 

 cristato interne albo : subtus flavicans, gutture olivaceo indiilo : rostro ob- 

 scure corneo, basi albicante : pedibus nigris. 



Long, tota 5'2", alac 27, caudae 2*5, tarsi '75. 



Hab. In ins. Jamaica. 



