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1. Parula superciliosa. 



Conirostrum superciliosum, Hartl. Hev. Zool. 1844, p. 215. 

 Sylvia mexicaua, Licht. 3ISS. in Mus. Beroh, iinde 

 Compsothlypis mexicana, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 21 (1850). 

 Parula mexicana, Bp. Consp. i. p. 310 (1850). 

 Parula superciliosa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 299, 1859, p. 373 ; Scl. 



& Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 10; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 26 (1862) ; Baird, 



kevieic Amer. B. p. 171 (1865) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. 



i. p. 545 (1869) ; Scl. 8f Salv. Nommcl. A v. Neotr. p. 8 (1873) ; 



Salv. 8,- Crodm. Biol. Centr.-Ame)-., Aves, i. p. 122, pi. viii. fig. 2 



(1880). 

 Mniotilta superciliosa, Grat/, t. c. p. 238, no. 3450 (1869). 

 Mniotilta mexicaua, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 238, no. 3453 (1869). 

 Oreothlypis superciliosa, St^n. Auk, 1884, p. 169. 



Achilt male. General colour above oHve-yellow ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median coverts ashy grey, the greater series 

 and bastard-wing dusky, externally ashy grey ; primary-coverts and 

 quills dusky, narrowly edged with slaty grey, the secondaries more 

 broadly washed with the same colour, the primaries edged with 

 slaty grey ; upper tail-coverts slaty grey ; centre taU-feathers slaty 

 grey, longitudinally blackish along the shafts, the remainder of the 

 feathers dusky brown, externally slaty grey, fringed with white 

 near the end of the inner web, the outer feathers more broadly 

 margined ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck slaty grey ; lores 

 and feathers below the eye blackish ; a broad white eyebrow from 

 the sides of the neck to the sides of the nape ; feathers round the 

 eye white above and below, black in front and behind ; ear-coverts 

 slaty grey, blackish on the upper part ; cheeks, throat, and breast 

 golden yellow, with a large spot of chestnut on the lower throat ; 

 sides of neck slaty grey ; sides of fore neck and sides of breast olive- 

 green ; abdomen whitish ; sides of body and flanks pale ashy 

 brown washed with olive ; thighs white ; under taU-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts and asillaries white, the edge of the wing 

 yellow ; quills duskj- below, whitish on the inner web : " bill 

 blackish, lower mandible pale at base ; legs brown " (^Salvin and 

 Gochnan). Total length 4-3 inches, culmeu 0-5, wing 2-55, tail 

 1-8, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being rather paler slaty 

 grey on the head, and especially on the sides of the face and sides 

 of neck ; the under surface of body similar to that of the male but 

 rather paler yellow, and with the patch of chestnut on the throat 

 smaller and paler in colour. Total length 4'7 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 2'4, tail 1*85, tarsus 0*65. 



In the Salvin-and-Godman collection is a bird marked " female," 

 from the Yolcan de Fuego, which is scarcely to be distinguished 

 from the adult male. It is equally brightly coloured on the 

 head and underparts, but has the chestnut throat-patch rather 

 smaller. 



