1SS4.) StKJNEOKR oil A II (I I r<: tit Oril it liol 0<^ira . TOO 



1827. — Svlvirola Swainson, Zool. Journ. HI. p. 160 (tiec Harris 1782, 

 qtiiv Dipt. ; nee Mumi'iik. 1797; nee Hubn. 1810, quce'^loW.). 



1S3S. — Panda Bonaparte, Geoji;i-. Comp. List, p. 20 (Type Paruf. 

 amerieatius L.). {N'cc Parnlus SPIX, 1S24, qtice Synallaxis). 



1851. — CompsotJilypis. Cabanis, Mus. Ilein. I. p. 20, (same type;. 



Professor Biiird (Rev. Am. B.. p. 168) and Dr. Coues { B. Color. 

 Vail., I, p. 306) have both acknowledged that Paru/a Bp. is 

 antedated by Parnlus Spix, believing, however, that Boie's 

 C/tloris, might stand as the oldest name, "if Moehring's genera 

 are to be rejected as pre-Linnaean." But Chloris was already 

 given bv Cuvier to a different genus of birds, embracing 'Les 

 Verdiers' or the Green-Finches. Cabanis was therefore correct 

 in stating that the older names were preoccupied, and in creating 

 a new name, which will have to stand. 



Before giving a short svnopsis of the species, I take pleasure 

 in introducing some remarks furnished me by my friend Robert 

 Ridgway concerning the generic position of two species which 

 have generallv been referred to the genus PariiJa or Compsothly- 

 pis. ' They are as follows : 



■■Two Central American species, which have been usually refer- 

 red to this genus, cannot properly be included ; in fact, they appar- 

 ently are much nearer the genus Conirostrum (assigned in the 

 existing 'svstem' to the Coerehidce) than to Compsothlypis. 

 From the latter they differ in having no trace whatever of a notch 

 to the bill, and in the very slight development of the rictal bristles, 

 both of which features are characters of Conirostrum, There 

 are also other difl'erences, which it is imnecessarv to mention in the 

 present connection. I do not believe, however, that these birds 

 can be consistentlv placed in Conirostrtim . the bill being much 

 stouter, while there are other differences. ■ It therefore seems 

 desirable to give a new name to this group (the two species be- 

 ing apparentlv congeneric), and I accordingly propose that of 

 Oreothlypis. with Compsothlypis gittUiralis Cab. as type. 



"The known species are (i) Oreothlypis guttiiralis (Cab.) 

 and (3) Oreothlypis super ciliosa (Hartl.)." 



Synopsis. 



a' Eyelids white . . . . . . . i. C. anierieana. 



a^ Eyelids dusky or black, 

 b' Abdomen white. 



c* Lores gra\' .... 2. C insularts. 



(? Lores black . . . . t,. C. tn'griJora. 



