186 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



and form a more or less hidden corona] patch, whicli varies in 

 extent, however, in some of the species included in this genus. 

 The bill is short and wide, the width at the base being about 

 equal to the length of the exposed culmen, and the tip of the upper 

 mandible is sharply hooked. Rictal bristles feebly developed. 

 The wing is rounded, the second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries 

 longest and sabequal and the first about equal in length to the 

 seventh. The tail is square at the tip and [)roportionately long, 

 being about six-sevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus is 

 about twice the length of the exposed culmen. The hind toe 

 and claw are almost equal in length to the middle toe and claw. 

 Coloration : male and female similar. 



Key to the Subspecies. 



A. Larimer, wing more than 70 mm. 



a. Crest white ; throat ash-grey, breast 

 olive-green. 

 a. Throat greyish white , back pale [p. 186. 



olive E. pagana macconnelli, 



h' . Throat citron-yellow ; back dark 



ochraceous olive E. pagajia olivina, p. 187. 



h. Crest rufous ; throat and breast 



dusky grey E. pagana riijiceps, p. 188. 



B. Smaller, wing less than 70 mm. 



c. Abdomen and under tail-coverts [p. 189. 



sulphur-yellow E. crisfata ichiteJyi, 



d. Abdomen and under tail-coverts [p. 190. 



greyish E. cristata parniroslris, 



473. Elaenea pag-ana macconnelli. 

 Yellow-vented Crested Flycatcher. 



Jfuscicapa flavogaster Thunberg, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. viii. p. 286, 

 1822 ( Brazil j, not J/, ftavigaster Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 52, 

 1801. 



Elainea pctgana (nee Licht.) Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 70l, 

 18-18; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 (Bartica Grove, Koraima 3500 ft.); 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 137, 1888 (Boraima, Bartxca 

 Grove); Quelch, Timehri, (2) v. p. 90, 1891 (Georgetown); Beebe, 

 Our Search for a Wilderness, j)p. 132 (tig. 07), 192, 1910 (George- 

 town). 



Eloenia Jlavoptster Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 288, 

 no. 2938 (part), 1912. 



Elcenia Jiavogaster macconnelli Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 iv. (ser. 9) p. 304, Oct. 1919. 



" Muff-bird " iQuelch). 



