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1898. 0. Bangs describes from the Sta. Marta region 

 E. browni, which = E. frantzii pudica and E. sororia 

 which =E. albivertex. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XII., pp. 

 158, 175. 



1899. Salvadori and Festa describe E. cinereifrons from W. 

 Ecuador. Boll. Zool. Univ. Torino, XV., p. 7. 



1900. Nelson describes M. platens jaliscensis from Jalisco 

 which is probably a subspecies of E. viridicata. Auk, XVII., 

 p. 264. 



1900. H. v. Ihering gives an account of the nesting- 

 habits of several species of Elaenia inhabiting S. Paulo. 

 Revista Mus. Paulista, IV., pp. 43, 44, 230-33. 



1901. O. Bangs describes E. sordidata from San Miguel 

 Island, which is apparently inseparable from E. albivertex. 

 Auk, 1901, p. 122. 



1901. R. Bowdler Sharpe in his "Handlist of Birds," III., 

 p, 116-117, 122-125, gives a list of the species of Myiopmgis 

 (11 species) and Elainea (26 species). " E. incompta" and 

 " E. qffinis " do not belong to Elaenia. 



1901. Nelson describes M. yucatanensis, which is apparently 

 not different from E. v. placens. Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, XIV., p. 172. 



1902. Bangs describes M. p. accola from Chiricmi and M. p. 

 pallens from the Sta. Marta district, both being probably 

 referable to E. v. placens. Proc. New. Engl. Zool. Club, 

 III., pp. 35, 85. 



1902. Berlepsch and Hartert discuss the species of Elaenia 

 found on the Orinoco Eiver. The nesting and the eggs of 

 several species are described. Novit. Zool., IX., pp. 43-45. 



1905. Berlepsch and Hellmayr publish the result of their 

 investigations concerning some typical specimens of Elaenia, 

 viz., of E. lundii,E. modesta, etc. J. f. Orn., 1905, pp. 1, 2, 12. 



Genus ELAENIA Sundev. 



Elcenia z (from eXao/ioç = oleagineus) Sundev. K. Vet. Akad. 



1 The name was first written Elaenia by SundeTall when he created the 

 genus in 1835, but in 1872, in his " Tentanien," he accepted the spelling 

 Elainea, proposed by Cabanis and Heine in 1859. Perhaps we might ultimately 

 think it proper to alter our terms of the law of priority in such a way, that an 

 author who first proposed a name should be entitled to alter it afterwards for 

 the sake of correct spelling, or that a correction proposed by another author 

 should be accepted if the first author has consented to it. 



