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during a Cruise in the Caribbean Sea. 
Elcenia martinica subpagana Ridgw. Birds of North and 
Middle Amer. pt. iv. p. 429. 
Elainia pagana Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, p. 566. 
Two specimens which I obtained on Grenada and a 
large series which I have examined in the British Museum 
collection are undoubtedly distinct from birds found in 
St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica, Martinique, and Guada- 
loupe (typical E. martinica ). They very closely resemble, 
if not actually identical with, the form found on the neigh¬ 
bouring mainland (Venezuela and Colombia), Trinidad and 
Tobago. If, therefore, we follow Count BerlepsclPs recent 
proposal, and accept Thunberg's original name flavogaster 
for the mainland bird, instead of martinica (from which 
purely Antillean group both the mainland and Grenada bird 
are quite distinct), then this form becomes E. flavogaster. 
If, on the other hand, the Grenada bird is recognised as 
differing from the mainland form and as being worthy 
of subspecific rank, another name than subpagana must 
be found for it; for this name is referable to a race which 
ranges further to the west through Central America, from 
South Mexico to Panama, and it is hardly possible that 
those from Grenada and the Grenadines can be identical 
with it. 
We should thus have E. flavogaster representing the 
typical bird from Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil, while 
E. flavogaster subpagana would represent the more western 
race; and if the Grenada and Grenadine bird is to be 
distinguished by a name, I would suggest E. flavogaster 
grenadensis. By this arrangement the name martinica is 
reserved for the purely Antillean races, which are easily 
distinguished from the mainland forms. 
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Myiarchus oberi nugator. 
Myiarchus oberi nugator Riley, Smithson. Misc. Coll. 
1904, p. 275. 
Specimens of this Tyrant which I obtained on Grenada 
and from St. Vincent, and others which I have examined in 
the British Museum collection, can be distinguished from 
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