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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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to breast, yellow ; posterior to this whitish, the sidea tinged with ashy. ,{ 

 brown or chestnut crescent across the tliroat. Line from l)ill over the eye 

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

 Length, 4.50; wing, 2.45 ; tail, 2.20 ; tarsus, .(i7. 



I liave seen no skins marked female, but what I consider to lie 

 such dilTer only in a smaller patch of brown on the tliroat. 



Smith- C >l1ec- Sex 



8 llllllU 



No. 



32,03(1 



tiir'8 

 No. 



lO.Sdi 

 l,l.-)9 



and 



Locality. 



Mexico. 

 Orizaba. (Alplue 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



Collected by 



J. Gould. 



V«'i reaiix. 



Prof. Sumichraat. 



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Pariila gutturalis. 



Comp^othli/pis gutturalis, Cab. Jour. Om. 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 uiidtjr 

 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 pluiiihi»- 

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

 edged with white. No other white markings whatever ou 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 ; taraus, .72 ; middle toe and claw, ,66 ; 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- 

 sembies Dendroica blackhurnia in the coloration of the tliroat, but 

 is otherwise very different. The specimen upon which tiie siiecics 

 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 Gserehidae than to the 

 HylmcoUdae. 



