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narrower bill than all the specimens now before me. Perhaps 

 it is an abnormal specimen of E. albivertex with the mesial 

 line of the belly of a nearly pure white. 



28. Elaenia diesoletjca Cab. et Heine. 



Elainea mesoleuca Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., II. (1859), 

 p. 60 (descr. Ç ex Bio Grande, typ. in Mus. Hein.) ; Sci., 

 P.Z.S., 1861, p. 407 ; id., Cat, Coll. Am. B. (1862), p. 217 

 (Eio Grande) ; Pelz., Orn. Bras. (1868), pp. 108 nota, 425 ; 

 Sci., P.Z.S., 1870, p. 835; Sci. et Salv., Nomencl. Ar. 

 Neotr. (1873), p. 49; Salv., Cat. Coll. Strickland (1882), 

 p. 308, no. 1505 ; Beri, et Hier., Zeitschr. Ges. Orn., 

 1885, p. 132 (Eio Grande do Sul) ; Sci., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., 

 XIY. (1888), p. 153 i (Bahia) ; Eier., Ber. Mus. Paiüista, 

 in. (1888), p. 193 (S. Paulo) ; id., ibid., IV. (1900), p. 232 

 (nest and eggs) ; Heine et Reichen., ISTomencl. Mus. Hein. 

 (1890), p. 143 ; Iher., Aim. Est. Eio Grande do Sul, 1900, 

 p. 14 (E. Grande do Sul) ; Sharpe, Handlist, III. (1901), 

 p. 124; Iher., Eev. Mus. Paulista, V. (1902), p. 313 

 (S. Pardo). 



Elainea plaeéns Iher. (nee Sci.), Ber. Mus. Paulista, III. 

 (1888), p. 194 (S. Paulo), cf. op. cit. Y., p. 313. 



Elainea pagana albiceps (part.) Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. is. H., 

 II. (1889), pp. 197, 203. 



E. E. albiceps parvirostris dictae cpioad coloribus simillima, 

 sed major, pilei medii plumis unicoloribus, rei basi 

 extrenio vix albo variegatis, pectore semper viridi perfuso, 

 dorso viridescentiore, necnon f asciis alarum plermncjue angus- 

 tioribus et magis griseo-olivaceis, nee albescentibus. 



Al. 84-77, caud. 73-67 mm. 



Habitat : Bahia (Wucherer, Mus. Brit,), Mus. H. v. B. 

 S. Paulo : Piqueté, Ypiranga (Ihering). B. Grande do Sul: 

 Taquara (Ihering). 



1 Muscipeta modesta Wied, placed by Mr. Sciater, with, a query, among the 

 synonyms of JE. mesoleuca, seems to me to belong to SvMeqatv.s fasciatus 

 (Thunb.). 



