COMPSOTHLYPIS. 491 
laris) ; lower parts yellow, for anterior half at least, the color usually deepening 
on chest into orange-brownish. (Females and immature males of certain species 
with whole upper parts tinged, more or less, with olive-green, and yellow of lower 
parts paler.) 
a’, Eyelids white; yellow of lower parts not extending farther back than breast, 
the sides and flanks white, tinged with bluish gray and rusty brown. 
Adult male: Above bluish gray (more blue on head), the back bright 
olive-green ; wing with two broad white bands; chin, throat, and breast 
yellow; chest more or less tinged with orange-brown, this often bor- 
dered anteriorly by a blackish band across lower throat; rest of lower 
parts white, the sides tinged with bluish gray and reddish brown. 
Adult female: Similar to the male, but paler, all the colors less pro- 
nounced. Young in first autumn: Upper parts in general tinged with 
olive-green; yellow of lower parts paler. Young: Yellow of lower 
parts replaced by light grayish, the chin tinged with yellow; abovo 
dull grayish, more olive on back, the wings and tail much as in adult 
female, but duller grayish. Length 4.12-4.95, wing about 2.20-2.40, 
tail 1.60-1.85. West placed within hanging tufts of lichens or “beard- 
mosses,” or bunches of dead leaves and other rubbish caught on hang- 
ing branchlets during freshets. Hggs 3-5, .64 x .46, white, or creamy 
white, thickly speckled with reddish brown, chiefly round larger end. 
Hab. Hastern United States and Canada, breeding throughout; in win- 
ter, southern Florida, more northern West Indies, eastern Mexico, and 
Guatemala...........scseee 648. C. americana (Linn.). Parula Warbler. 
a@. Eyelids dusky; yellow of lower parts extending back over sides and upper 
part of belly (sometimes over whole surface except under tail-coverts). 
b. Belly chiefly, or entirely, white; wing with two broad white bands. 
c'. White spot on inner web of outer tail-feather extending quite to shaft, 
for greater part of its extent, in adult male, and very nearly to shaft 
in female. 
Adult male: Above bluish gray, or plumbeous, relieved by olive- 
green patch on back and two broad white wing-bands; lores 
deep black; chin, throat, chest, breast, and sides gamboge-yel- 
low, deepening into a more saffron tint on chest; rest of lower 
parts white, the flanks usually tinged with brown. Adult fe- 
male: Much duller than male, the upper parts tinged with 
olive-green, lores dull grayish dusky, ycllow of lower parts 
paler and duller, etc. Length 4.25-4.75, wing 2.00-2.20, tail 
1.58-1.75. Hab. Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas (and, 
doubtless, adjacent portions of Mexico). 
649. C. nigrilora (Covzs). Sennett’s Warbler. 
ec. White spot on inner web of outer tail-feather scarcely if at all touching 
shaft in adult male, and nearly obsolete in female. 
d'. Otherwise similar in color to C. nigrilora, but rather less bluish 
