BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE A.MERICA. 



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Adult male.— Ahoxe plain bluish slate color or dark plumbeous, 

 relieved by a triangular patch of olive-green occupying the interscap- 

 ular region; lores, anterior portion of forehead, and suborbital region 

 blackish; outermost middle and greater wing-coverts sometimes with 

 indistinct white or pale grayish terminal spots; inner webs of two to 

 three outermost rectrices with a suliterminal spot of white, largest on 

 outermost rectrix; under parts yellow (gamboge or lemon), becoming 

 yellowish white on lower abdomen and anal region, the chest slightly 

 tinged with orange-ochraceous, the flanks tinged with olive; under tail- 

 cov'erts and under wing-coverts white; maxilla black, mandible pale 

 colored (yellowish in life?); le^« and feet dark horn brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 92.7-97.8 (95.2); wing, 50-51.6 (51); tail, 37.3- 

 40 (88.9); exposed culmen, 9-9.4 (9.1); tarsus, 15.2-lO.S (16); middle 



toe, 9.4-9.6 (9.5).^ 



Adult /;';yw//r. -Similar to the adult male, Imt slightly paler and 

 duller in color; length (skin), 91.4; wing, 47.5; tail, 36.6; exposed 

 culmen, 9; tarsus, 14.5; middle toe, 8.4.' 



I m/w/,/v'.s/i>/?«>^«^t^.— Above plain grayish olive, inclining to olive- 

 green on back; middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly tipped 

 with pale grayish; under parts dull white, the chest and sides of breast 

 shaded with paU> olive-grayish. 



Highlands of Guatemala (Choctum) and Chiapas (Ocuilapa; near 

 Tuxtla Gutierrez). 



Parnla hrasiUana {not Sylvia hra^llkma Lichtenstein ) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 



1860, 397 (Guatemala). 

 iParula?i inornata Baird, Review Am. Birds, Nov., 1864, 169.-Sclater and 



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

 Parula inornata Baird, Review Am. Birds, Nov., 1864, 171, part (type from 

 Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala; ooll. O. Salvin).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 182, part (Choctum) .—Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ara., 

 Aves, i, 1880, 120, part, pi. 8, fig. 1 (Choctum).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 643, part (Choctum). 

 IMniotilta'] inornata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3451. 

 [Parula pitktyimu] var. inornata Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 208, part (Guatemala). 

 Comp.^othlvpis pitiayumi inornata ii'TE.mEGFM, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 170. 

 [FMrulapitiayumi.] Subsp. a. Parula inornata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 



1885, 260, part (Guatemala). 

 dompsothlypis] inornata Uux'ax ay, Man. N.Am. Birds, 1887, 492, part (Guatemala). 

 Compsothlypis inornatns Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 159 (near Tuxtla Gutierrez, e. 



Chiapas). 

 Clompsothlypix] p\_itiay,i;mi:\ inornata Ridg way, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 69, in text . 



1 Three specimens. '^ One specimen, from Ocuilapa, Chiapas. 



