88 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 134 
PARULA PITIAYUMI (Vieillot): Tropical Parula Warbler, Mariquita 
Sylvia pitiayumi Vietttot, Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle, nouv. éd., 
vol. 11, June 21, 1817, p. 276. (Paraguay.) 
On three occasions I saw pairs of these warblers moving quickly 
among leafy twigs in the high branches of tall forest trees, so high 
above the ground that they were barely within gunshot. Except for 
their restless movements they would never have been detected in the 
shaded light of these forest haunts. Only occasionally did they ap- 
pear briefly in silhouette against some tiny opening that led to the 
open sky. Probably they were fairly common, as the forest cover 
of the entire great island was suited to their needs. The decidedly 
darker coloration of four taken for specimens requires their descrip- 
tion as an insular form. 
PARULA PITIAYUMI CIRRHA subsp. nov. 
Characters.—Similar to Parula pitiayuma speciosa (Ridgway) *® 
but more heavily pigmented ; lower breast and abdomen orange, con- 
tinuous with the chest color; sides darker; side of head darker, with 
the black of the lores and around the eye extended heavily beyond 
the posterior margin of the ear coverts; greenish area of back 
decidedly smaller ; wing slightly longer. 
Description—Type, U.S.N.M. No. 461218, male, Isla Coiba, 
Panama, collected Jan. 31, 1956, by A. Wetmore (orig. No. 20542): 
Line across forehead, lores, space about eye, and a narrow line on 
side of neck black; auricular area black, with an overwash of deep 
orient blue; forepart of crown Alice blue; back of crown and hind- 
neck Columbia blue; back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts Tyrian 
blue to dark Tyrian blue ; patch in center of back Roman green ; rump 
cadet gray; lesser and middle wing coverts black basally, the tips 
Columbia blue; greater wing coverts black, edged with light Tyrian 
blue, except the central ones, which are edged and tipped with white 
to form a conspicuous spot; remiges black, edged with light Tyrian 
blue; rectrices also black, edged with light Tyrian blue, with a broad 
subterminal patch of white in the inner web of the two outermost; 
throat and upper foreneck lemon chrome; lower foreneck and chest 
light raw sienna, a light wash of this extending farther foreward 
toward the throat; lower breast and abdomen light cadmium, merg- 
ing without a break into the darker color of the chest; feathers of 
sides bordering the chest black with the tips dark Tyrian blue; re- 
25 Compsothlypis pitiayumi speciosa Ridgway, Auk, vol. 19, No. 1, January 
1902, p. 69. (Boquete, Chiriqui.) 
