488 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



oovorrs; inner \ve])s of two outermost rectrices with a large, siibter- 

 niinal sulxiuadratc patcli of white, the third rectrix .sometimes with a 

 small white siibterminal spot; mahir region, chin, breast, sides, flanks, 

 and abdomen rich lemon yellow; throat and chest deep orange-ochra- 

 ceous; anal region, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts white; 

 maxilla l)lack:, mandi))le pale colored (yellowish in life); iris brown; 

 legs and feet horn lu'ownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 83.S-10-i 

 (9-1-.9); wing, 47.5-55 (52.5); tail. 35.3-41 (39.1); exposed culmen, 

 9.1-10 (9.7); tarsus, 15.7-18 (16.1); middle toe, 9.9-10.4 (lo.l).i 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, l)ut usually slightly duller 

 in color, with white tips to outermost greater wing-coverts less dis- 

 tinct, and the throat and chest less deeply orange-ochraceous, or jqX- 

 low slightly tinged with that color; length (skins), 92.7-104.1 (98.9); 

 wing, 47.5-51.8 (49.6); tail, 35.3-38.6 (36.9); exposed culmen (one 

 specimen), 9.1; tarsus, 15.2-15.5 (15.3); middle toe, 9.6-9.9 (9.7).' 



Nicaragua (Ometepe) to Chiriqui (Boquete de Chitra; Volcan de 

 Chiri(iui) and Veragua (Calobre). 



I'aruld InoriKdn Baikd, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 171, part (Angostura and Dota, 

 Costa Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 93 (Barranca, Angos- 

 tura, and Dota Mts., Costa Rica). — Salvadori, Atti. Roy. Ac. Sci. Torino, 

 iv, 1868, 172 (Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 292 (Costa 

 Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 182, part (Volcan de Chiriqui 

 and Boquete de Chitra^ Chiriqui; Calobre, Veragua). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 120, part (Barranca, Angostura, and Dota 

 Mts., Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui and Bocjuetede Chitra, Chiriqui; Calo- 

 bre, Veragua).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 188.3, 391 (Ometepe, 

 Nicaragua). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 643, part (Turrialba, 

 Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui; Boquete de Chitra). 

 IParula] inornata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part. 

 [Panda pitiayumi'] var. inornata Baird, Brewer, and Ridcway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 208, part (Costa Rica). 

 [ J *arula pitiayumi.'] Subsp. a. Parula inornata Sharpe, Cat. P>ir(ls l>rit. Mus., x, 



1885, 260, part (Costa Rica; Chiriqui). 

 C\_ompH()t]dypis'] inornata Ridgwav, Man. N. \\\\. Birds, 1887, 492, ])art. 

 Voniptiot Illy pis inornata Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 106 



(Naranjo de Cartago; Dota). 

 C(nnpxothIypis pitiayumi speciosa Ridgwav, Auk, xix, .Jan., 1902, 69 (Bixjuete, 

 Chiriqui; coll. U S.Nat. Mus.). 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI INORNATA (Baird). 

 GUATEMALAN PARTJLA WARBLER. 



Similar to 61 p. Mpeciom^ but much duller in color (bluish slate- 

 gray instead of dull indigo blue above, the chest but slightly tinged 

 with oi'ange-ochraceous). Similar also to O. p. nhjv'doi'a^ but with 

 the flanks and abdomen (except extreme lower portion) yellow, without 

 white tiyjs to middle wing-coverts (or else with these very indistinct, 

 and with onh^ the outermost (if anx) greater coverts tipped with white. 



' Eleven specimens. ■' Two specimens. 



