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Another skin from the Yolcau de Fuego is apparently a younger 

 female and has only a few chestnut-tipped feathers wliere the 

 throat-patch is coming. From the variation in size in this throat- 

 patch, it would appear that it is gradually assumed, and is probably 

 smaller in young than it is in old birds. 



In the very young stage the head is apparently oliye-yellow like 

 the back, or only slightly greyer ; white eyebrow slightly tinged 

 with yellow ; throat ashy brownish ; abdomen white. [Description 

 taken from a female bird in the Salvin-and-Godman collection, 

 from Ciudad Durango, Mexico, June 20th (A. Forrer). The speci- 

 men is in full moult, the yellow throat being assumed.] 



Hah. Central America, from Mexico to Guatemala. 



a. cS ad. sk. 



b, c. (5 2 ad. sk. 



d. (S ad. sk. 



e. (S ad. sk. 



f. Imm. sk. 



La Parada, South Mexico 

 {Salle). 



La Parada, South Mexico. 



S. Mexico, December. 



Guatemala. 



Volcan de Fuego, Guate- 

 mala, Aug. 9 (O. Sal- 

 vin). 



Sclater Collection. 



M. A. SaU(5 [C.]. 

 M. A. Salle [C.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 



2. Parula americana. 



The Fmch Creeper, Cateshy, N. H. Carol, i. p. 64, pi. 64 (1731). 

 Le Figuier cendre de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. ill. p. 522 (1760) ; 



Dauhmt. PI. Eril. v. pi. 731. fig. 1. 

 Le Figmer de la Louisiane, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 500, pi. 26. fig. 4 



(170()). 

 Parus americanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 341 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 



i. p. 1007 (1788). 

 Le Figuier cendre a collier, Buff. H. N. Ois. t. p. 301 (1778). 

 Motacilla eques, Bodd. Tahl. PI. E71I. p. 46 (1783). 

 Yellow-backed Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 440 (1783). 

 Louisiane Warbler, Lath. t. c. p. 480 (1783) ; Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. 



p. 407 (1785). 

 Creeping Titmouse, Lath. t. c. p. 558 (1783) ; Penn, t. c. p. 423 



(1785). 

 Motacilla americana, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 960 (1788). 

 Sylvia americana, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 520 (1790); Audub. B. 



Amer. pi. 15 ; id. Orn. Bioyr. i. p. 78 (1831) ; JJOrb. in Ramon de 



la Sagra H. N. Cuba, p. 62 (1838). 

 Sylvia ludoviciana. Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 535 (1790). 

 Parus varius, Bartr. Trav. Florida, p. 292 (1791). 

 Syh-ia torquata, Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. p. 38, pi. 99 (1807). 

 Sylvia pusiUa, Wils. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 17, pi. 28. fig. 3 (1811). 

 Tliriothmiis torquatus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 194 (1826). 

 Sylvicola pusiUa, Sjvains. Zool. Jotirn. iii. p. 169 (1828). 

 Motacilla ludoviciana. Less. Traite, i. p. 418 (1831). 

 Sylvicola americana, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 6 (1832) ; 



Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172 ; Audub. Syn. p. 59 



(1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii. p. 57, pi. 91 (1841) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 



p. 202; Nemoied, J.f. 0. 1858, p. 116. 



