On the Genus Elaenia. 377 



" Contramaestre pardo verdoso corona amarilla " (= E. 

 viridicata). — Nouv. Diet., XL, p. 171. 



1822. Thunberg describes Pipra flavogaster, this being our 

 E.flavogaster (Thunb.).— Mem. St. Petersb., VIII., p. 286. 



1823. Lichtenstein describes Muscicapa pagana = {E. flavo- 

 g aster Thunb.) from Bahia. — Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berol.,p. 54. 



1825. Spix describes Platyrhynchus paganus (=E. flavogaster) 



from Bio. The name P. paganus seems to have been 



derivedfrom M. pagana of Lichtenstein. — Av. Bras., IL, p. 13, 



PL 16, f. 1. 

 1831. The Prince of Wied describes Muscicapa brevirostris 



(= E.flavogaster) from Rio. — Beitr., III., p. 799. 

 1835. Sundevall creates the genus Elaenia (type M. pagana 



Licht.).— K Vet. Akad. Hancll., 1835, p. 89. 

 1837. Lafresnaye and D'Orbigiry in their Synopsis Avium 



(etc.) L, describe : Muscipeta albiceps (= E. albiceps), M. 



obscur a (=E.obscura), Muscicapa elegans (= E. viridicata), M . 



albicilla nee Vieill. (= E. gaimardi). — Mag. Zool. 1837, 



pp. 47, 48, 52. 



1840. D'Orbigny gives an account of the species collected on 

 his voyage through Bolivia, etc., which had been already 

 described by Lafresnaye and himself in 1837. He alters 

 the name M. elegans to M. viridicata, and that of M. albicilla 

 to M. gaimardi D'Orb., also that of M. obscurci to M. 

 guillemini, but in the latter case the new appellation was 

 unnecessary. — Voy. Am. mérid. Ois., pp. 319, 325, 326. 



1841. Swainson in his " Selection of Birds of Brazil and 

 Mexico," gives an illustration of his Tyrannida caniceps 

 ( = E. caniceps). 



1844. Tschudi, in his Consp. Av., etc., gives a description of 



E. modesta from Peru. — Arch. f. Naturg. 10, I., p. 274. 

 1845-46. Tschudi gives an account of the species of Elaenia, 



from Peru \E. cayanensis is Myiozetetes cayanensis (L.), E. 



brevirostris Tsch. is Sublegatus fasciatus (Thunb.), E. viridi- 



flava Tsch. is Tyranniscus viridiflavus (Tsch.)]. — Fauna 



Peruana Aves, pp. 24, 157-160. 

 1847. Gr. E. Gray, in his " G-enera of Birds," Vol. I., gives 



a long list of species of his genus Elania, of which but very 



few are really pertaining to it. 



