384 Hans Greif von Berlepsch : 



Händig 1835, p. 89 ( u sp. Muse, pagana Licht. — brevi- 



rostris — modesta, — aurifrons Pr. Max." — typ. select. : Muse. 



pagana Licht.). 



Afterwards corrected into : 



Mania Gray, 1840 ; Elaenea Cab., 1847 ; Elainia Reichb., 



1850 ; Elainea Cab. et Heine, 1859 (also of Sunde vali, 



1872) ; Elanea Bangs, 1900. 



Paroïdes Less. Complem. Buff, 1837, nee Koch, 1816. 



Museicapara D'Orb., 1840 (part). 



Myiopagis Salv. et G-odm., Biol. Centr. Am. Aves II. (1888), 

 p. 26 (typ. Elainea pia cens Sci.). 



The genus Myiopagis Salv. et Godm. I do not recognise. 

 I find that in all species of true Elaenia, as well as in those 

 for which the genus Myiopagis was instituted, the nostrils 

 are surrounded by a membrane which nevertheless in some 

 individuals becomes more or less obsolete on the anterior 

 and lower parts, this being, perhaps, sometimes caused by 

 the drying of the slrin. In fact, in some specimens of 

 E. placens, the membrane is quite recognisable on the 

 anterior and lower edges of the nostril. Dr. Allen has 

 already expressed his belief that the genus Myiopagis is 

 untenable. 



1. Elaenia flavogastek 1 (Thunb.). 



Pipra fiavogaster Thunb., Mem. Acad. St. Petersb., VIII. 



(1822), p. 286 (typ. ex. Brazil ; Mus. Upsala) ; Lönnberg, 



Ibis, 1903, p. 241. 

 Muscicapa pagana Licht., Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berlin (1823), p. 



54, sp. 562 (typ. ex Bahia — Mus. Berol.). 

 Platyrhynchus paganus Spix., Av. Bras., IL (1825), p. 13, PI. 



16, f. 1. (Rio Janeiro — Mus. Monac.) 

 Muscicapa brevirostris Wied, Beitr., III. (1831), p. 799 



(descr. specim. ex Rio Janeiro — typ. in Am. Mus. 1ST. H. 



New York) ; Euler, J. f. 0, 1867, pp. 189, 190, 193 (nesting). 



1 It is not without much hesitation that I am accepting Thunberg's name 

 fiavogaster for this species, so long known to us as JE. pagana (Licht.), but I see 

 no possibility to avoid it. At all events a re-examination of Thunberg's type in 

 the Upsala Museum seems to be advisable. — H. v. B. 



