BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 491 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 89.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1880, 121; Ibis, 1889, 236 (Tampico, Tamaulipas; NuevoLeon; Valles, 

 San Luis Potosi). 



[Parula] pitiayumi var. nigrilora Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 208, footnote, in text. 



Parula pitiaymni nigrilora Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 171; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 89a. 



{^Parula pitiayumi.'] Subsp. (i. Parula nigrilora Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 X, 1885, 261, pi. 11, fig. 2, 



P[ari(?o] nigrilora Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 291. 



Compsothlypis nigrilora Stejnegeb, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 170. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 649. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 

 1888,244 (Fort Brown, Texas).— Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 

 195. 



C{pmpsothlypis] nigrilora Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491. 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI PULCHRA (Brewster). 

 BEAUTIFUL PARUIA WARBLER. 



Similar to C.j^- nigrilora, but larger and with much more white on 

 wing-coverts, that on greater coverts occupying more than exposed 

 half (sometimes extending quite to tips of middle coverts) in adult 

 male; flanks more often and more stronglv tinged with rusty or pale 

 chestnut. Similar also to C. j>. insula?'/'-? hi\t smaller; flanks paler and 

 less strongl}^ tinged with chestnut; white on wing-coverts nuich more 

 extended; white subterminal spot on inner wel)S of lateral rectrices 

 much larger, always distinct on second, sometimes present on third; 

 adult male with lores and orbits distinctly blackish. 



Young, -first ijlumage. — Above plain brownish gray, the back slightly 

 tinged with olive; beneath dull white, the sides of breast slightly tinged 

 with gra}", the upper throat and center of breast faintly tinged with 

 pale yellow; white wing-bands much narrower than in adults. 



Adult /;/«Z^.— Length (skins), 99.1-101.6 (99.8); wing, 53.3-56.9 

 (54.6); tail, 39.1-1:3.9 (41); exposed culmen, 9.6-9.9 (9.7); tarsus, 

 15.5-16 (15.7); middle toe, 9.6-10 (9.9). ^ 



Adult fe7nale.—\i^wg\h (skin), 96.5; wing, 51.8; tail, 39.6; tarsus, 

 15.7; middle toe, 9.6.'' 



Western Mexico, in States of Chihuahua (Hacienda San Rafael), 

 Sinaloa (Presidio; Plomosas), and Jalisco (Barranca Ibarra). 



Parula nigrilora (not of Coues) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 643 



(Presidio, near Mazatlan, w. Mexico). 

 Compsothlypis jjulchra Brewster, Descr. Supposed New Birds from W. North 

 Am. and Mex., Jan. 31, 1889, 93; Auk, vi, Apr., 1889, 93 (Hacienda de San 

 Rafael, Chihuahua, n. w. Mexico; coll. W. Brewster). 



^ Three specimens. ^ One specimen. 



