478 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Conirostt^m superdliosum H.\mhAVB, Rev. Zool., 1844, 215. 



Panda superciUosaScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 299 (LaParada, Oaxaoa); 



1859, 373 (Talea, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 26 (La Parada).— Sclater 



and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 10 (Guatemala). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 



169, 171 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; alpine reg.). — Sumichrast, Mem. Best. Soc. 



N. H., i, 1869, 545 (alpine region, Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 122, pi. 8, fig. 2 ( Quezaltenango, Volcan de Fuego, 



ridge above Chuacus, and Santa Barbara, Guatemala, etc.). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 255, 642 (near City of Mexico; Ciudad Durango; 



Oaxaca; Calderas, Guatemala, etc.). 

 {^Parula^ superciliosa Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8. 

 • "P[rtra?o] " supercUiom Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 208, in text. 

 [3//M0<i/to] superciliosa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3450. 

 Oreothh/pis superciliosa Ridgway, Auk, i, April, 1884, 169; Man. N. Am. Birds, 



1887, 481, footnote, in text. 

 C[pmpsothlypis] ??ie.Tica?ia Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 21 (Mexico; coll. Berlin 



Mus.; e:s. Sylvia mexicana lAchiQXiiiiem., manuscript). 

 [PfflruZa] mexicana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 310. — Baird, Rep. Pacific 



R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 237, footnote. 

 Hypothymis mexicana Lichtenstein, Journ. fiir Orn., Jan., 1863, 58. 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



Chloru (not of Cuvier, 1799) Boie, Isis, 1826, 972. (Type, Parus americamis 



Linnpeus.) 

 Sylvicola (not of Harris, 1782,nor of Humphrey, 1797) Swainson, Zool. Journ., 



iii, July, 1827, 160. (Type, Parus americamis Linn?eus. ) 

 Parula (not Parulus Spix, 1824) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20. 



(Type, Parus amcricanus Linnfeus. ) 

 Compsothlypis'^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20. (Type, Parus americanus 



Linnseus. ) 



Small arboreal Mniotiltidffi with narrowly wedge-shaped acute bill, 

 distinct rictal bristles, and ba.sal phalanx of middle toe united for 

 greater part of its length to outer toe. 



Bill much shorter than head, narrowly wedge-shaped and acute, but 

 with culmen perceptibly curved, at least toward tip; maxillary tomium 

 without subterminal notch. Nostril longitudinally oval or subcuneate, 

 overhung by rather broad operculum. Rictal bristles distinct. Wing 

 moderate or rather long, rather pointed (four outermost primaries 

 abruptly longest and nearly equal, but varying in relative length); 

 wing-tip decidedh^ shorter than tarsus. Tail shorter than distance 

 from bend of wing to tip of secondaries, emarginate. Tarsus much 

 longer than commissure, decidedly less than one-third as long as wing, 



'From Gr. Koi-irpdc, and QAuttz's. ko/i^o? = cared for, adorned, elegant, from 

 Ko/iieoo, I take care of {cfr. L. comptus and como), and kindred with Kop?/ (L. coma), 

 the hair considered as an ornament for the head. QXvTrii, a name of a bird said to 

 be found in some codice.s of Aristoteles (VIII, 5. 4) where others have Sporuffz?, or 

 Bpaniq, a thistle-eating bird, not determinable (from Qfjavco, I break, with which is 

 kindred OXdoo, of the same signification, and dXifioo, I rub. Spavnii, Qpaiti^, QXaTtii, 

 BXv7tii'!).—Com-pso-thly^-pi^. (Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 168, footnote.) 



