On the Genus Elaenia. 391 



Al. 80, caucl. 79, culm. llf, tars. 19| mm. 



Habitat : Ecuador occ. : Babahoyo (Fraser), Guayaquil, 

 Yaguaclii (Stolzm. and Siem.), Santa Rita (Buckley), La 

 Concepcion (valle de Chota), and Balzar (Festa), Paramba 

 (Mus. Tring). 



N.B. — I cannot say if the specimen from Pasto (Lehmann) 

 in the British Museum belongs to this form or to true E. 

 Üavocjaster. 



5. Elaenia maktinica (Linn.). 



[Muscicapa martinicana cristata Briss., Orn., II. (1760), p. 362^ 



tab. XXXVI. , f. 2 (descr. specim. ex "Martinica," typ. in 



Mus. Aubry] . 

 Muscicapa martinica Linn., Syst. Nat. ed., XII. 1 (1766), 



p. 325 [ex Briss. Hab. in Martinica] ; Gm.., Syst. Nat. 



ed. XIII. (1788), p. 930, No. 3 ; Lath., Ind. Orn., IL 



(1790), p. 483, no. 62 ; Shaw, Gen. Zool., X. 2 (1817), 



p. 377 ; Vieill., Nouv. Diet., XXI. (1818), p. 451. 

 [Gobe-mouche huppé de la Martinique, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois, 

 " IY. (1778), p. 540 ; D'Aubent,, PI. Eni., no. 568, f. 1.] 

 [Martinico Fly-Catcher Lath., Gen. Synopsis Birds, II. (1783), 



p. 352, No. 52 (ex Briss. et Buff.) ; Bechst., Allg. Uebers. 



d. Vögel, II. 1. (1794), p. 341 ; Lath., General Hist, 



Birds, VI. (1823), p. 230.] 

 Muscicapa albicapilla Vieill., Ois. d'Am., Sept. 1 (1807), p. 66. 



PL 37 [typ. ex " Saint Domingue " (errore ?), coll. 



Vieillot,] ; id., Encycl. méth. (1723?), p. 827. 

 Myiobius martinicus Gray, Gen. Birds I. (1846), p. 249, 



sp. 27. 

 Tyrannula martinica Bp., Consp. Av. I. (1850), p. 190. 

 Elainea martinica Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 169 (Dominica) ; Sci., 



P.Z.S., 1871, p. 271 (Sta. Lucia) ; Semper, P.Z.S., 1872, 



p. 650 (Sta. Lucia) ; Sci. et Salv., Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 (1873), p. 48; Pelz., Ibis, 1873, p. 113 ; Sci., P.Z.S., 1874, 



p. 175 (Barbadoes) ; Lawr., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., I. 

 (1878), p. 59 (Dominica) ; id., ibid. (1879), p. 357 (Mar- 



