254 MNIOTILTID^. 



6. PARULA*. _, 



Type, 



Chloris, Boio, Isis, 1826, p. 972 {nee Cuv. 1792) P. americana. 



Sylvicola, Stmi7is. Zool Journ. iii. p. 169 (1827, nee 



Harris, 1782) P. americana. 



Parula, Up. Comp. List B. Eur. 8r N. Amer. p. 20 



(1838) P- americana. 



Compsotlilypis, C(th. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 20 (1850) . . P. americana. 



Oreothlypis, Stejneger, Auk, 1884, p. 168 1 P. superciliosa. 



Cf. Stejneger, Auk, 1884, pp. 168-170. 



Range. North America. Central Ameiica, and South America 

 to Southern Brazil and Bolivia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Eump and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow 



like the back ; no white bands on wing- 

 coverts ; a broad white eyebrow superciliosa, p. 255. 



b. Rump and upper tail-coverts slaty blue or 



blue-grey like the head; mantle oUve- 



yellow. 



a'. With a double wing-bar, formed by the 



white tips to the median and greater 



coverts. 



a". With a black patch on lower throat, 



followed by a chestnut patch ; rest 



of throat and fore neck yellow ; 



breast white, with a vinous patch 



on the sides of the upper breast .... americana d , p. 257. 

 b'\ No chestnut patch on the throat, 

 which is yellow, sometimes deep- 

 ening to orange. 

 a'". Lores and feathers below the eye 

 black, 

 a*. Abdomen yellow like the breast . pitiai/umi d $ , p. 259. 



b\ Abdomen white nigrilora S , P- 261. 



6'". Lores and feathers below the eye 

 ashy, 

 e*. Eyelid white; a distinct white 



spot on the outer tail-feathers . americana $ , p. 258. 

 (Z*. No white eyelid ; outer tail- 

 feathers edged with white near 



the end of the inner web .... insularis d 5 , p. 262. 

 b'. With a single wing-bar formed by the 



tips to the greater coverts inornata c? $ , p. 260. 



c. Rump and upper tail-coverts slaty grey 



like the head ; mantle black ; throat 

 and breast brilliant orange, approaching 

 scarlet giitturalis, p. 263. 



* Dr. Stejneger would supersede Parula of Bonaparte by CompsotMypis of 

 Cabanis, because Spix has ah-eady described a genus Paridus; but on this 

 principle Pica must be suppressed on account of its resemblance to Picits. 



t Parula superciliosa and P. guHuralis, generically separated by Dr. Stejneger, 

 seem to me to be only thick-billed Parulcs. 



