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of a reddisli-l)rown, and a few of a purplish-slate. They are of an obloug- 

 oval shape, and measure .68 by ..50 of an inch. 



A nest from near Springfield, Mass., obtained by Professor Horsford, the 

 parent bird having beeu secured, was built iu a low clump of bushes, just 

 above the ground. It is well made, woven of fine hempen fibres of vege- 

 tables, slender stems of grass, delicate mosses, and other like materials, and 

 very thoroughly lined with liair. It measures two and three fourths inches 

 in diameter and two in lieight. Tlie cavity is two inches wide aud one and 

 three fourths deep. The eggs measure .60 by .50 of an inch, are oblong- 

 oval in shape, their ground-color a pearly white, marked iu a coroua, about 

 the larger end, with browu and purjjlish-ljrown .spots. 



Gems PARULA, Bon.\p. 



Chloris, BciiE, Isis, 1826, !)72 (not of Mochring, 17.')2). (Ty|)e, Parus amcricanus.) 

 Si/lvicula, SWAIN.SON, Zool. Jouru. Ill, .Tuly, 1827, 169. (Not of Ilunipliify, Mus. Calon- 



nianum, 1797,'60 ; genus of land molhisks.) (Same type.) 

 Parula, Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838. (Same type.) 

 Compsothlypis, Cabanis, Mns. Hein. 1850, 1851, 20. (Same type. 1 



Gen. Char. In the species of this genus the bill is conical and acute ; the cuhnen 

 very gently curved from the base ; the commissure slightly concave. The notch when 

 visible is further from the tip than in Dendrnica, but usually is either obsolete or entirely 

 wanting. Bristles weak. The tarsi are longer than the middle toe. The tail is nearly 

 even, and considerably shorter than the wing. Color, blue above, with a triangular patch 

 of green on the back ; anterior lower parts yellow. 



Two species — one with three varieties — of this genus, as lately restricted, 

 are known in America, only one, however, has as yet been detected within 

 the limits of the United States. They may be distinguished as follows : — 



P. americana. Eyelids white. Yellow beneath restricted to anterior half. 



Two white bands on wing; a dusky collar across the jugulum. Hah. East- 

 ern Province of United States, south to (Guatemala ; Bahamas ; Cuba ; 

 Jamaica ; St. Croix ; St. Thomas. 

 P. pitiayumi. Eyelids dusky. Yellow beneath, extending back along sides to 

 the crissum. 



Tioo white hands on iviny. 



Above plumlieons-lilue; lores and eyelids deep black. Abdomen wholly 

 yellow. Wing, 2.20 ; tail, 1.7.5. Hah. South America from Bogota to 

 Paraguay .......... var. j> i tiay n mi.' 



Above ashy-blue ; lores and eyelids scarcely darker. Abdomen wholly 

 white. Wing, 2.3.5 ; tail, 2.05. Hah. Tres Marias Lslands, Western Mex- 

 ico ........... var. insular is. '^ 



1 Sylvia pitiayumi, Vif.ill. Nouv. Diet. II, 1816, 276. Parula pit. Sclat. Catal. 26, no. 

 165. — Baiud, Rev. Am. Birds, I, 1865, 170. 

 ^ Part'la iivndnris, Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. X, Feb. 1871. 



