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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



C'lhloris'] amer lea )ta J ORD AS, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 60, part. 



Compsothlypw americana nsnex Brewster, Auk, xiii, Jan.. 1896, 44 (Lake Umba- 

 gog, Maine; coll. W. Brewster). — Amekicax Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 123.— (?)Fleminu, Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Muskoka, 

 etc., n. Ontario, breeding). 



COMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA RAMALIN.^ ' Ridgway. 



WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 



Similar in coloration to O. a. asnea^^ but smaller even than ('. <t. 

 americana. 



AcMtmale.—\^Qx\^t\i (skins), 92-105 (94.8); wing, 54.5-61.5 (5Y.5); 

 tail, 39-45 (40.9); exposed culmen, 8-11 (9.9); tarsus, 16-17 (16.5).' 



Adult female.— 'L^w'yih (skins), 97-101 (98.3); wing, 52.5-54 (53.5); 

 tail, 37.5-40 (38.5); exposed culmen, 9-10.5 (9.8); tarsus, 14.5-16.5 

 (15.8).^ 



Sylvia americana (not Parus americanns Linn;eus) Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 



78, part. 

 Sylvicola americana Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 

 1841, 57, part. — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 

 71.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 311 (Wisconsin).— Read, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi., 1853, 399 (n. Ohio).— Pratten, Trans. Ills. Agric. 

 Soc, 1855, 602 (Illinois).— Scl.\ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 202 (Tlac- 

 otalpam. Vera Cruz). — Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 114 (Minnesota). 

 Panda americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List. 1838, 20, part. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part.— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, 10 (Guatemala).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (San Antonio, Texas).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 200 (Yucatan); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



^From Ramalina, a genus of lichens, species of which are very abundant in 

 bottom-land forests of the lower Mississippi Valley, where in many localities fre- 

 quented by the present bird it is much more abundant than Vsnea, if not altogether 

 replacing the latter. 



^Twenty-six specimens. 



^ Three specimens. 



Average measurements for different localities are as follows: 



The coloration is very uniform throughout the extensive area inhabited by this 

 form, breeding males from Louisiana and Texas being as richly colored and with as 

 conspicuous a dusky chest-band as those from Minnesota and ]Michigan. 



