PARULA NIGRILORA 207 



85". Cabanis, in proposing Coinpsothlypis in 1850, defends it 

 on the ground that ,,die friiheren Namen dieser Gruppe sind 

 bereits auderweitig vergeben" — that all the earlier names are 

 preoccupied. Baird does not see why Chloris is not tenable. 



To the species long known as the only one of the United 

 States, I recently had the pleasure of adding another, discov- 

 ered in Texas, and then new to science.* 



*ParnIa nigrilora,— Sennett's Warbler. 



<? Subccerulea, dorso medio virenti-flavo, alig alio-bifasdatia, palpebria nigris 

 immaculatis, loris linedqiie frontali nigerrimis ; suhtu8flava,juguloaurantiaco,ab- 

 domine infimo, hypochondriis crissoque alMs. 



$ adult : Upper parts of the same ashy-blue color as in P. americana, with 

 a dorsal patch of greenish-yellow exactly as in that species. Wings also a^ 

 in americana, dusky, with grayish-blue outer, and whitish inner, edgings, 

 and crossed by two conspicuous white bars, across tips of greater and middle 

 coverts. Tail as in americana, but the white spots smaller and almost re- 

 stricted to two outer feathers on each side. Eyelids black without white 

 marks. Lores broadly and intensely black, this color extending as a narrow 

 frontal line to meet its fellow across base of culmeu, and also reaching back 

 to invade the auriculars, on which it shades through dusky to the general 

 bluish. Under parts yellow as far as the middle of the belly, and a little 

 farther on the flanks, and also spreading up the sides of the jaw to involve 

 part of the mandibular and malar region ; on the fore breast deepening into 

 rich orange, but showing nothing of the orange-chestnut and blackish of 

 P. americana. Lower belly, flanks and crissum, white. Bill black above, 

 yellow below. ■ Legs undefinable light horn color. Length (of akins, about) 

 4.50; wing 2.00-2.20; tail 1.80-1.90; bill from nostril 0.38-0.40 ; tarsus 0.62- 

 0.65 ; middle toe alone 0.40. (Extremes of three adult males.) 



Habitat: — Texas, and doubtless Mexico (Hidalgo, Texas), G. B. Sennett, 

 Apr.-May, 1877, Nos. 248 (type), 343, 396. 



This bird is entirely distinct from P. americana, and belongs to the pitia- 

 yumi type. From americana it is distinguished by the extension of the yellow 

 to the middle belly and flanks, absence of the decided blackish collar, lack 

 of white on eyelids, and broadly black lores involving auriculars and frontal 

 stripe. The upper parts, wings, and tail are substantially as in americana, 

 the tint of the upper parts, shape and color of the dorsal patch, and the white 

 wing-bars being the same in both. From P. inornata Baird it differs in the 

 presence of the wing-bands and color of the upper parts, inornata being a 

 deep blue species with plain wings. From pitiayumi it difliers in the much 

 lighter colored upper parts, and less of the yellow below, pitiayumi having 

 a deep plumbeous-blue back and the yellow extending to the crissum. The 

 relationships are closest to P. insularis, agreeing in having the lower abdo- 

 men and flanks white, like the crissum, instead of yellow like the breast, 

 as is the case both with inornata and pitiayumi. The differences from inau- 

 laris, however, are readily expressed ; the lores being decidedly black, and 

 broadly contrasting with the bluish-gray, as in pitiayumi and inornata, and 

 the wing-bands being as broad and distinct as they are in americana, instead 

 of narrow as in inaularis, and the yellow of the throat extending on tbe malar 

 region, while in inaularis the yellow is strictly confined between the sides 

 of the jaw. 



