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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. 
Smith- Collee-| Sex When 
Received from | Collected by 
7 | ) | . 
sonian| tor’s | and Locality. 
No. | eee ie. Collected. | | 
10,155 |  .. |... | Mexico, ¥; Gondd..4 ¢ 4) [Ee ee 
32,696 | £0,800 | ¢ ve [region.) Verreanx,’ =" of" eee 
32,465 | 1,159 | .. Orizaba. (Alpine Prof. Sumichrast.| = ...... 
Parula gutturalis. 
Compsothlypis gutturalis, Cas. Jour. Orn. 1860, 329 (Costa Rica}. 
(30,499.) Above ashy plumbeous; 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 light 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 blackburnia in the coloration of the throat, but 
is otherwise very different. The specimen upon which 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 Cxrebide than to the 
Sylvicolide. 
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Smith- Collec-) Sex 
: : - When : 
sonian tor’s | and Locality. Received from Collected b 
No. | No. | Age. Collected. 3 
30,49¥, 14 | Costa Rica. [C. | Dr. Frantzius. J. Carmiol. 
35,22 o Raucho peat all ag Sept. 17, 64. J. Carmiol., i 
