BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMP:RICA. 



481 



COMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA AMERICANA (Linnaeus). 

 PARULA WARBLER. 



Adult male. — Head and nock, except chin, throat, lores, and eyelids, 

 dull grayish blue or l)luish gray; lores darker, usually blackish; a 

 small white spot or streak on posterior portion of upper e3^elid, and a 

 larger spot of white on lower eyelid; interscapular region 3'ellowish 

 olive-green, forming a triangular patch; scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle rectrices plain bluish gray, rather 

 lighter than color of head; middle and greater wing-coverts, remiges, 

 and rectrices (except middle pair) Idackish or dusky, edged with bluish 

 gray, the middle and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, 

 forming two conspicuous bands, the anterior of which is broadest; 

 inner webs of three outermost rectrices with a large suliterminal spot 

 of white, of which that on the exterior rectrix is much the largest; 

 chin, throat, and breast gamboge yellow; chest varying from plain 

 yellowish tawny to deep tawny (the feathers margined with yellow) 

 usuall}' with more or less of dusk}" across the upper portion, sometimes 

 forming a rather distinct narrow band, the j^ellow of the throat also 

 sometimes tinged with tawny; sides of breast bluish gray, sometimes 

 tinged with pale chestnut posteriorly; rest of under parts white, the 

 sides and tianks tinged with grayish; maxilla l)lack, mandible yellowish 

 (])right yellow in life); iris brown; legs and feet brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 95-107 (101.6); wing, 55.5-61 (58.5); tail, 

 40.5-45 (42.5); exposed culmen, 10-11.5 (10.6); tarsus, 15.5-17.5 

 (16.7).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but much duller in color, 

 especially the under parts; gray of upper parts less bluish; yellow of 

 throat, chest, and breast paler and duller, the chest only faintly, if at 

 all, tinged with tawny, never with a distinct (usually without any) 

 dusky band across upper portion; length (skins), 96-108 (99.7); wing, 

 52-58.5 (54.7); tail, 37.5-42 (39.6); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.1); 

 tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.1).' 



^ Twenty-one specimens. 

 '^ Eleven specimens. 



Breeding specimens from the coast of Virginia compare in mea.snrements with 

 those from South Carolina and Georgia, as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Ex- 

 posed Tarsus, 

 culmen. 



MALES. 



Twelve adult males from South Carolina and Georgia 



Nine adult males from coast of Virginia , 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. . 

 Four adult females from coast of Virginia (Dismal Swamp) 



The two series are practically identical in coloration 



3654— VOL 2—01 31 



58.8 

 58.3 



55.1 

 .M.l 



42.7 

 42.2 



38.9 

 39.4 



10.6 

 10.6 



10.2 

 10.1 I 



16.7 

 16.6 



16.2 

 1.5.9 



