396 Hans Crraf von Berief seh : 



Habitat in insula : Cayman ßrac [C. J. Maynard leg.]. 



Three skins of this apparently distinct new form from Cay- 

 man Brae were kindly presented to me by Mr. C. B. Cory. 

 They are easily to be distinguished from specimens of Grand 

 Cayman in having the abdomen and the under tail-coverts 

 of a uniform pale sulphur-yellow, the mesial line being not- 

 white as it is the rule in E. mart in lea and allies. The Cayman 

 Brae specimens also differ in having the upper parts and the 

 breast of a pale earthy-brown, but perhaps this colour has 

 changed somewhat by influence of moisture. 



10. ElAEXIA 3IAKTIXICA REMOTA Sllbsp. 110V. 



? Elainea subpagana Salv. (nee aut.), Ibis, 1864, p. 380. 

 (Half Moon Cay, off Brit, Honduras.) 



' Elainea martiniea (L.) ? " Eidgw. (nee aut.), Proc, U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., VIII. (1885), p. 571 (Cozumel isld.). 



Elainea ma ti in ira (part.) Salv. et Go dm., Biol. Central. Am.. 

 Aves, II. (1888), p. 36 ; Salv., Ibis, 1889, p. 359 (Meco,, 

 Mugeres, Holbox, Cozumel, Half Moon Cay) ; id., Ibis, 

 1890, pp. 85, 87, 91, 93 (islands off the coast off Yucatan). 



Elainea pagana martiniea (part.) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus., 

 N.H., II. (1889), pp. 196, 199, part, 



E. E. martiniea dictae valde affinis, differt uropygio con_ 

 spicue brunneo perfuso, jugulo pectoreque superiore obscure 

 griseis, itaque gula alba magis circumscripta, necnon rostro 

 latiore distinguenda. 



Al. 74, caud. 71, culm. lOf, tars. 18i mm. 



Typ. in Mus. H. v. B. (ad. Cozumel Isl. G. F. Gamner 

 leg.). 



Habitat: ? Holbox isld. (Salvia). 1 ? Meco isld. '(Salvia). 

 Mugeres Island (Salvia). Cozumel Isl. (Benedict, Gaumer). 

 ? Half Moon Cay off British Honduras (Salvin). 1 



1 Mr. O. Salvili makes the following remarks : " The Cozumel birds agree 

 closely -with specimens from the West Indies, typical of JE. martiniea, but some 

 of those from the islands further to the north (Mugeres, etc.) hare the under 

 surface tinged with yellow and in this respect conform to JE. pagana, and in fact 

 are intermediate between these closely allied birds. With these however we find 

 examples not separable from the more typical JE. martiniea, and it seems 

 probable, considering the short distance these islands lie from the mainland^ 

 that an occasional individual crosses over and pairs with the island form." 



