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MNIOTrLTID^. 



the extreme base of the forehead black, as -well as the feathers 

 round and below the eye ; a line extending from the angle of the 

 mouth below the eye and the ear-coverts slaty blue ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body brilliant yellow, inclining to orange on the lower 

 throat and fore neck ; lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts white ; sides of body washed with ashy ; sides of vent and 

 lower flanks white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; edge 

 of wing grey ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner 

 web : " upper mandible black, the lower one clear yellow ; legs 

 clear fleshy brown ; iris bro\yn " (Burmeister) ; " legs pale yellow " 

 (Durnforcl). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2*05, 

 tail 1-55, tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female. Paler in colour than the male, the grey more ashy 

 and less distinctly blue ; the mantle-patch smaller aud duller olive ; 

 wing-bands less distinct, those on the median series ashy, obscuring 

 the white tips to the feathers ; lores and feathers below the eye 

 dusky blackish, with a slightly indicated line of whitish above the 

 lores ; under sm-face of body paler yellow, without any tinge of 

 orange on the throat. Total length -i"? inches, culmen 0*45, 

 wing 2, tail 1-6, tarsus 0'65. 



Ifab. The whole of Brazil, extending westwards to Tucuman. In 

 Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana the birds 

 are darker and more richly coloured, showing a decided approach 

 to P. inornata. It is to this dark race that Von Berlepsch has 

 applied the name of P. pacifiea, and the synonyms appertaining to 

 it have been marked above with a dagger (t). 



a. Ad. St. 

 &, e. [ c? ] ad. sk. 

 d.\_(S'\ ad. sk. 

 e. 5 ad. sk. 



/.[$] ad.sk. 



cf 1 ad. sk. 



S\ ad. sk. 



S ] ad. sk. 

 k.(S ad. sk. 

 /. S ad. sk. 

 m, w. [ J 5 ] ad. 



sk. 



South America. 



Brazil. 



Brazil. 



Conchitas, Buenos Ayi-es, 



Sept. {W. H. Hudson). 

 Paysandu, Bauda Oriental, 



August. 

 [Chili.] 

 [Chili.] 



Quito, Ecuador. 

 Bahahoyo, July (Fraser'). 

 PaUatanga, August (Fraser). 

 Bogota. 



Subsp. a. Parula inornata. 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 Gould Collection. 

 M. Claussen [P.]. 

 Sclater Collection. 



Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



Gould Collection. 

 Zoological Society. 

 Goidd Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 

 Sclater Collection. 



Parula brasiliana (nee Licht.), Salv. ^- Scl. Ibis, 1860, p. 397. 

 Parula inornata, Baird. Review Amer. B. p. 171 (1865) ; Laior. Ann. 



Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 93 (1868) ; Vo7i Frantz. J. f. O. 1869, p. :?92 ; 



Sah: P. Z. S. 1870, p. 182 ; Scl. Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 8 



(1873) ; Salv. ^- Godm. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 120, pi. viii. 



fig. 1 (1880). 

 Mniotilta inornata, Gray, Handel. B. i. p. 238, no. 3451 (1869). 

 Parula pitiayunii, var. inornata, Baird, Brewer, 8) Ridgw. Hist. N. 



Amer. B. i. p. 208 (1874). 

 Compsothlypis piti ay ami inornata, Stejn. Auk, 1884, p. 193. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty blue, with a broad 



