6. PAEI7LA, 259 



Knox County, Indiana, U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



April (R. Ridyway). 



Guatemala. Gould Collection. 



Jamaica. Purchased. 



Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [0.]. 



Jamaica. Sclater Collection. 



S. Domingo. M. A. Sall^ [C._]. 



Porto Rico {Bryant). Sclater Collection. 



Porto Rico. Dr. Bryant [P.]. 



3. Parula pitiayumi. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) 



Pico de Punzou celeste peclio de Oro, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 421 (1802). 

 Sylvia pitiayumi, J'ieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 276 (1817). 

 Sylvia venusta, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 293. tig. 1 (1824) ; d'Orb. 



Voy. Amcr. merid. iv. p. 218 (1844). 

 Sylvia plumbea, Swains. Zool. lllustr. iii. pi. 139 (1822-23). 

 Sylvia brasiliana, LicJtt. Verz. Doubl. p. 35 (1823). 

 Sylvicola minuta, Srvains. Classif. B. ii. p. 245 (1837). 

 Sylvicola venusta, Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 8 (1844) ; Burm. Th, Bras. 



iii. p. 116 (1856) ; id. Reis. La Plata St. ii. p. 473 (1861). 

 Muiotilta venusta, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 196 (1848). 

 Panda brasiliana, Bp. Consj}. i. p. 310 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 1.37 1, I860, p. 273 1. 

 Compsotliiypis pitiayumi, Cab, Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 21 (1850) ; 



Stejn. Auk, 1884, p. 170. 

 Compsothlypis brasiliana, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 143 f. 

 Parula pitiayumi, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 26 (1862) ; Baird, Revieio 



Amer. B. p. 170 (1865) ; Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, pp. 166, 627 1; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 631 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 71 (1871) ; Hamilton, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 302 ; IFyatt, t. c. p. 322 f ; Scl. ^- Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 8 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 16 t ; Berlepsch, 



J.f. O. 1873, p. 231 ; Baird, Bretver, ^- Ridgiu. Hist. N. Amer. B. 



i. p. 207 (1874) ; Diirnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 158, 1877, p. 108 ; Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 319, 1879, p. 223 1 ; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 593 1 ; Salv. ^- Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 117 t ; Lurnf. t. c. p. 419 ; 



Salv. t. c. p. 352 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 594 ; Berlepsch ^- Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1883, p. 541 1 ; Barroivs, Bidl. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii. p. 87 



(1883) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, p. 46 (1884) f. 

 Muiotilta pitiayumi. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 238, no. 3449 (1869). 

 Parula pitiayumi pacilica, Berlepsch, P. Z. S, 1884, p. 286. 



Adult. General colour above clear slaty blue, the mantle and 

 upper back olive -yellow ; lesser wing-coverts clear slaty blue; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, externally slaty blue, tipped 

 with white on the outer web, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard- 

 wing blackish, with a narrow white fringe to the outer feathers ; 

 primary-coverts dusky blackish, with obsolete margins of slaty grey; 

 quills blackish, externally edged with slaty blue, hoary whitish near 

 the end of the primaries, the secondaries fringed with white at the 

 tips ; centre tail-feathers slaty blue like the upper tail-coverts, 

 with a longitudinal mark of black near the shaft of the feathers ; 

 remainder of the tail-feathers blackish, externally edged with slaty 

 blue, fringed with white near the end of the inner web ; the two 

 outer feathers with a large subtcrminal spot of white on the inner 

 ■web ; head and hind neck slaty blue ; lores and a narrow line along 



