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Parula inornata. 



Parula inornata, Baird. 



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

 Not of LicuT. 

 Ilah. Guatemala and Costa Rica. 



I3y tlio kindness of Mr. Salvia I have been enabled to examine a 

 specimen of tlie supposed P. pitiayuvii, from Guatemala (no. 18T 

 (1,488) Salvin's coll., Choctun, Vera Paz, Jan. 1860), and find that 

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

 sppcific 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. 

 Tiie 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 white bands across the coverts — 

 their presence being oniy indicated by a scarcely appreciable lighten- 

 ing of the blue in the region of the bands. 



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

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

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



The comparison of this specimen has been made with an extensive 

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



Note. — Since writing the preceding article, specimens received 

 from Mr. Carmiol fully substantiate the distinctness of the Central 

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

 the greater coverts, but none on the median. 



Parula superciliosa. 



Conirostrum superciliosum, Hartlaub, R. Z. 1844, 215 (Guatemala).— 

 Parula auperciliosa, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, 299. — lu. Catal. 18(jl, 

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



Parula mexicnna, Box, Consp. 1850, 310. — Compsothlypis m^xicana, 

 Cabanis, Mus. Hein. 1850, 21. 



Ilih. Mexico (La Paradj, Oaxaca, Orizaba) ; Onalemala. 



Upper parts ashy ; iutersoapiMum and whole back, except upper tail coverts, 

 olive-green; this color tinging the lesser wing coverts. Beneath, from chia 



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