186 BIRDS OF BRITISH . GUIANA. 



and form a more or less hidden coronal patch, which 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 o£ the exposed culmen, and the tip o£ the upper 

 mandible is sharply hooked. Rictal ^bristles feebly developed. 

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

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

 seventh. The tail is square at the tip and proportionately 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. Larger, wing more than 70 mm. 



a. Crest white ; throat ash-grey, breast 

 olive-green. 

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



• olive IE. pagana maccoiinelli, 



v. Throat citron-yellow; back dark 



ochraceous olive H. pagana olivina, p. 187. 



J. Crest, rufous ; throat and breast 



dusky grey Ti. pagana ruficeps,-^. 188. 



B. Smaller, wing less than 70 mm. 



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



sulphur-yellow Tl. cristata wMtelyi, 



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



greyish E: cristata parvirostris, 



473. El8en.ea pagana maoconnelli. 



Yellow-vented Crested Flycatcher. 



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

 1822 (Brazil), not M. flavigaster Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 52, 

 1801. 



JElainea pagana (nee Licht.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Gruian. iii. p. 701, 

 1848 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 294 (Bartica Grove, Eoraima 3500 ft.) ; 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 137, 1888 (Eorauna, Bartica 

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

 Our Search for a "Wilderness, pp. 132 (fig. 67), 192, 1910 (George- 

 town). 



Elmnia flavogaster Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 288, 

 no. 2938 (part), 1912. 



Mlwnia flavogaster macconnelli Chubb, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

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



" Muff-bird "(QweZc^). 



