BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 487 



no. 4, 1876, 15 (Santa Efigenia and Tehuan tepee, Oaxaca, Oct., Jan.). — 

 SuMicHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, win- 

 ter). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 124, 175 (Kansas, etc.); Am. 

 Nat., vi, 1872, 265 (Leaevn worth, Kansas). — Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 XV, 1872, 196 (Colorado, 1 spec, May 11.)— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 

 58, part, 2d ed., 1882, no. 93, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 46, part; Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 208, part.— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 141 (w. Missouri, 

 breeding).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 196 (Colorado).— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 4 (Leavenworth). — Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 V, 1873, 180 (Colorado); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 88, part.— Ames, Bull. 

 Minn. Ac. Sci., 1874, 55 (Minnesota).' — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 208, part; iii, 1874, 504 (El Paso Co., Colorado).— 

 Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (s. e. Texas, breeding).— Hay, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 90 (Memphis, Tennessee, and Vicksburg 

 and Jackson, Mississippi, breeding). — Merriam, Auk, ii, 1885, 377 (St. 

 Louis, Missouri, breeding; descr. nest). 



[Panda'] americana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 93, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part. 



P[amda'\ americana Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 368 (Illinois, breed- 

 ing).— Boies, Cat. Birds s. Mich., 1875, no. 22 (breeding).— Nelson, Bull. 

 Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 98 (n. e. Illinois, breeding). — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 290, part. 



if [m"oit7to] americana Gray', Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196, part. 



M[niotilta'\ americana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3448, jiart. 



Compsothlypis americana Stegneger, Auk, i, 1884, 170, part. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 648, part. — Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 131. — Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 547 (e. Kansas, breeding). — Nehrling, 

 Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 193, part.— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xvi, 1893, 484 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua, 1 spec, Oct. 26). — Beyer, Proc. 

 Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 112 (Louisiana, breeding). 



C[pmj)sothlypis] americana Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491, part. 



C\hloris americana'] Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 60, part. 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI SPECIOSA Ridgway. 

 CHIRIQTII PARTXLA WARBLER. 



Similar to G. jp. jpitiaymni^^ but darker and bluer above, throat and 

 chest deeper orange-ochraceous, and middle wing-coverts without 

 white tips; similar in last-mentioned character to P. p. inornata, but 

 much more richly colored. 



Adult male. — Above dull indigo blue, relieved by a triangular patch 

 of olive-green occupying the interscapular region; lores, suborbital 

 region, and anterior margin of forehead black; outermost greater 

 wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, but no white tips to middle 



'Compsothlypis pitiayumi pitiayumi (Vieillot). 

 Sylvia piliayumi Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 276; Compsothlypis 

 pitiayumi Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 21; C[ompsothlypis] p[itiayumi] 

 pitiayumi Ridgway, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 69 in text.—Sylvia venusta Teni- 

 minck, PL Col., livr. 49, 1824, pi. 293, fig. 1. — Sylvia plumbea Swainson, Zool. 

 Illustr., ii, 1821-22, pi. 139. — Purala hrasiliana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 310. 



