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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[I'AIIT I. 



Pariila pitiayiiiiii. 



Sylvia pitiai/iimi, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. II, 1816, 276. — Compsothhjpis 

 ph. Cab. Mus. Hein. 21. — Parula pit. Sclatek, Cat. 26, no. 165. 



Sijlvia venusta, Temm. PL Col. 293, fig. 1.— D'Orb. Voy. IV, 1844; Ois. 

 218. — Syhicola ven. Burji. Uebers. Ill, 116. 



Sylvia phtmbea, Swains. Zool. 111. II, 1821-2, pi. 139. 



Parula brasiliuna, Bon. Consp. 18.50, 310.— Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1859, 137 ; 

 1860, 213.— Compsolhlypis bras. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1855, 143 (Bogota). 



Hab. South America, generally to Paraguay ; Ecuador ; Bogota ; Trinidad. 



(20,972.) Above plumbeous-blue, with a patch of olive-green in middle of 

 back, as in P. americana. Beneath rich yellow ; slightly ochraceous on the 

 jugulum ; the inside of wings, anal region, and crissum snowy white. Frontal 

 band and loral region black ; ears dusky. Two patches of white on the wing. 

 A square patch of white on inner web of outer tail feather near the end ; a 

 smaller one on the next feather. Females scarcely different, though duller 

 and smaller. 



Length, 4.25 ; wing, 2.15 ; tail, 2.00. 



This species differs from P. americana, to which it is nearly allied, 

 by the greater extension backwards of a deeper yellow, and absence 

 of the decided brown mark of jugulum ; the black frontal and loral 

 patch ; less amount of white on wing, and the spots on tail not ex- 

 tending to the third feather. 



A specimen from Trinidad, belonging to Mr. Newton, has the 

 breast and jugulum more ochraceous than any other before me. 



