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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



to breast, yellow ; posterior to this whitish, the sides tinged with ashy. A 

 brown or chestnut crescent across the throat. Line from bill over the eye 

 along side of head, with eyelids, white. No white markings on wing and tail. 

 Length, 4.50; wing, 2,45; tail, 2.20; tarsus, .67. 



I have seen no skins marked female, but what I consider to be 

 such differ only in a smaller patch of brown on the throat. 



Pariila gutturalis. 



Compsothlypis gut.turalis, Cab. Jour. Orn, 1860, 329 (Costa Rica). 



(30,499.) Above ashy plumljeous ; the whole interscapulum crossed by a 

 black crescent, the convexity posterior and extending a short distance down 

 the back. Beneath, from chin to breast, bright orange-red ; rest of under 

 parts, including lining of wings, white ; the sides and concealed centres of the 

 crissum liglit plumbeous. Lores and cheeks below line of the eye blackish. 

 Quills blackish; tail feathers not so dark, edged externally with the plumbe- 

 ous of the upper parts. The inner webs of lateral tail feathers narrowly 

 edged with white. No other white markings whatever on the wings and tail, 

 and none appreciable on the side of head. Bill black, yellow at the base 

 beneath ; legs plumbeous brown. 



Total length, 4.80 ; wing, 2.55 ; tail, 2.20 ; length along culmen, .50 ; from 

 nostril, .33 ; tarsus, .72 ; middle toe and claw, .56 ; hind toe and claw, .40; 

 claw alone, .22. 



This — one of the most beautiful of the American Warblers — is 

 so peculiar in coloration as not to require any comparison. It re- 

 sembles Dendroica hlackhurnia in the coloration of the throat, but 

 is otherwise very different. The specimen upon wdiich the species 

 was based by Dr. Cabanis, was probably a female, or else in autumnal 

 dress. 



It is not at all impossible that anatomical examination may show 

 this species to be more nearly related to the Cserebidse than to the 

 Siih'icolidae. 



