118 MNIOTILTIDA. 
Rica 7, San José and Grecia (Carmiol °), Dota Mountains (v. Frantzius 4); Panama, 
David (Hicks ®), Volcan de Chiriqui, Calovevora (Arcé 1°), Lion Hill (I ‘Leannan®?), 
—Co.omsia ) 79, 
In its southern migration this species barely touches Mexico, though it has been 
several times reported from that country?°. In Cuba it is even more rare, as Dr. 
Gundlach tells us that only two specimens have as yet come under his notice !8. In 
Guatemala, especially in the vicinity of Coban, and thence southwards to the isthmus 
of Panama, the bird is a common one in the winter months; and here it must be that 
most of the birds rest during that season. In South America its presence is only known 
at the extreme north-western end of the continent. Here Mr. Simons obtained examples 
near Minea in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta *°, and Mr. Wyatt others in the valley 
of the Magdalena ©. 
In the States this species is known as the ‘“ Tennessee Warbler,” it having been dis- 
covered by Alexander Wilson in that State ; but in all but the most northern States it 
is a bird of passage, breeding in comparatively high latitudes". Its range and habits 
are given by Dr. Brewer 1°, who also describes its nest as being a nearly flat bed of dry 
matted stems of grass, less than an inch in thickness, and three inches in diameter. 
PARULA. 
Parula, Bonaparte, Comp. List, p. 20 (1838) (type Parus americanus, Linn.); Baird, Brew. & 
Ridgw. N. Am. B.1. p. 207. 
Compsothlypis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1. p. 20 (1850-51). 
In this genus the bill is acute as in Helminthophaga; but a subterminal notch is 
faintly shown, and the rictal bristles are distinct and strong though short; the tarsus 
is longer than the middle toe; the more typical species have a triangular patch of 
olive-green on the back, and white spots on the tail. P. superciliosa and P. gutturalis 
have the tail without spots—the former with the back entirely olive-green, and the latter 
with a black triangular dorsal patch. Six species of the seven constituting the genus 
are included in this work, of which P. americana, the only strictly northern bird, enters 
our limits as a winter immigrant. JP. inornata, P. insularis, and P. nigrilora are all 
slight modifications of the southern P. pitiayumi; the first-named ranging from Guate- 
mala to the State of Panama, the second peculiar to the Tres Marias islands and Socorro, 
and the last to the Rio-Grande valley. P. superciliosa is restricted to the highlands of 
Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and P. gutturalis to the mountains of Costa Rica and 
the adjoining parts of the State of Panama. 
