PARULA. 



Itl 



Parula iiiornata. 



Parula inornata, Baird. 



Parula brasiliana, Sclater & Salv. Ibis, 18G0, 397 (Coban, Guatemala). 



Not of LlCHT. 



Hah. Guatemala aud Costa Rica. 



By the kindness of Mr. Salvin I have been enabled to examine a 

 specimen of the supposed P. pitiayiimi, from Guatemala (no. 187 

 (1,488) Salvin's coll., Choctun, Yera Paz, Jan. 18G0), and find that 

 it differs sufficiently from the South American bird to entitle it to a 

 specific name. Mr. Salvin's specimen is probably a female ; but 

 compared with females of the old species it is decidedly smaller, the 

 tail especially, and with its feathers narrower. The tarsi are shorter. 

 The under parts are paler yellow, with very little or no ochraceous 

 on the breast. The edge of the wing is blue, not white, and the 

 wing lacks the two sharply defined vv^hite bands across the coverts — 

 their presence being only indicated by a scarcely appreciable lighten- 

 ing of the blue in the region of the bands. 



Total leugth, 4.20 ; wing, 1.95 ; tail, 1.75 ; width of outer feather, .20 ; 

 length of bill from forehead, .45, from nostril, .29 ; tarsus, .62 ; middle toe 

 and claw, .48 ; hind toe aud claw, .37. 



The comparison of this specimen has been made with an extensive 

 series of P. pitiayumi, from Bogota, Trinidad, Brazil, and Paraguay. 



I^OTE. — Since writing the pieceding article, specimens received 

 from Mr. Carmiol fully substantiate the distinctness of the Central 

 American Bird. One of these shows a little whitish on the edges of 

 the greater coverts, but none on the median. 



Locality. 



Choctun, Vera Paz. 



Angustura, C. R. 

 Dota, C. K. 



When 

 Collected. 



Mar. 8, 'G4. 

 Aug. 27, '64, 



Kecelved from 



Cab. 0. Salvin. 

 J. Carmiol. 



Collected by 



Parula superciliosa. 



Cunirostrum siiperciliosum, Hartlaub, R. Z. 1844, 215 (Guatemala). — 

 Parula superciliosa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, 299. — Ib. Catal. ISGl, 

 26, no. 164.— Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, I, 1859, 10. 

 Parula mexicana, Bon. Consp. 1850, 310. — Compsothlypis mexicana, 

 Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 21. 

 Hab. Mexico (La Parada, Oaxaca, Orizaba) ; Guatemala. 



Upper parts a.shy ; interscapulum and whole back, except upper tail covert-;, 

 olive-green ; this color tinging the lesser wing coverts. Beneaih, from chiu 



