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Tlio following synopsis may aid in dcitcrmining the species of 

 rarula: — 



A. Color above plumbeous blue, with a triangular interscapular 



patch of olive; beneath yeJow anteriorly. Lateral tail 



feathers with a square patch of white on inner webs. 

 Yellow reacliing only to breast. Feathers of jugnlum 

 clouded with dark orownish. Eyelids only white. 

 White patches on three lateral tail feathers. Two white 

 bands on wings americana. 



Yellow extending over the belly. Jugulum only slightly 

 varied with ochraceous. No white on side of head, 

 white patches on two lateral tail feathers. Two white 

 bands on wings. Forehead and lores black . . . pilyayumi. 



Similar to last, but without white on the wings. Jugulum 



not ochraceous ........ irwrnata, 



B. Above ashy. No white on wings and tail, except on inner 



margins of lateral tail feathers. Beneath yellow or red 

 anteriorly. 



From chin to breast yellow, with a well defined brown 

 creHcent on throat. Whole back olivaceous. A stripe 

 over eye, and eyelids white ...... superr.iliosa. 



From chin to jugulum plain orange-red. A crescentic 

 saddle of black on the back. No white on oide of head. 

 Lores black gutturahs. 



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Pariila americana. 



Parus americanus, Linn. S. N. 10th ed. I, 17.')f, IflO. — Motacilla am. 

 Qmelin. — Sylvia am. Lath., Am. — Sylvicola am. Rich., Ann. — 

 Jones, Nat. in Bermuda, 1839, 59. — Pariila am. Bon. List Birds N. A. 

 Ib38.— GoBSE, Birds Jam. 1847, l')4 (Jamaica).— Baird, Birds N. 



Am. 18.58, 238.— ScLATER, P. Z. S. 1857, 202 (Xalapa) Ib. Ibis, 



lb59, 10 (Guatemala).— Ib. Calal. 1861, 26, 163.— Newton, Ibjs, 

 1859, 143 (Santa Cruz; winter).— Cassin, Pr. A. N. S. 1860, 376 

 (St. Thomas). — Gdndlach, Cub. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba; very com- 

 mon X- — Com/m lypis am. Cab. Kus. Ileiu. i650, 20. — Ib. Jour. Ill, 

 1855, 476 (Cuba). 



Ficedula ludoficiana, Brisson. — Motacilla lud. Gm. — Motacilla eqiies, 

 BoDD. — Sylvia torquata, ViEiix. — Thryothorus torq. Stephens. — • 

 Sylina pusilla, Wils. — Sylvicola pus. Swains. 



Figures : Aun. Orn. Biog. I, pi. xv. — I>t. B. A. II, p!. 91. — Vieill. Ois. 

 Am. II, pi. 99. — WiM. Am. Orn. iV, pi. xxviii. — Buffon, ^,1. enl. 

 731, fig. 1 ; 709, fig. 1. 



Uiih. Eastern province of Un?*-»d States, north to the Lakes, west to the 

 Miisouri Valley; in winter . Ui to (Uiatemala (not seen on the west coast 

 of Mexico). West Indies Bahamas ; Cuba; Jamaica; St. Croix ; St. Thomas. 



