402 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Family MNIOTILTID.E. 



The American Warblers, of which this familj' is comprised, 

 are confined to the New World, and at the time when Brabourne 

 and Chubb published their ' List of the Birds of South America' 

 fourteen of the genera and eighty-one of the species were 

 recorded. Seven of the genera and eleven of the species are 

 represented in British Guiana. 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cab. 



Compsotlilypis Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 20, 1851. Type P. americana 

 (Linn.). 



rig. 153.— To show the pointed bill. 



In this genus are included some of the sjnallest members of the 

 family. The bill is slender and sharply pointed. The wing is 

 rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries are longest 

 and subequal, the first is only rudimentary. The tail is nearly 

 square at the tip and nearly four-fifths the length of the wing, and 

 the tarsus is almost twice the length of the exposed culmen. 

 Coloration : male and female similar. 



602. Compsothlypis elegans. 

 Elegant Warbler. 



Parula pitiayumi (nee Vieill.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 302 (Roraiina, 



5000 to 6000 ft.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. pp. 259, 643, 1885 



(Roraima). 

 Parula elegans Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus. viii. no. 2, p. 204, 1912 (Lara, 



N.W. Venezuela) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 353, 



no. 3618, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface slate-blue 

 including the head, back, wings, and tail ; median and greater 

 upper wing-coverts tipped with white ; inner webs of flight-quills 

 blackish with pale edges ; inner webs of lateral tail-feathers dark 

 brown with a blotch of white near the tip ; lores, a narrow line at 

 the base of the forehead, and the space surrounding the eye black ; 



