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ConirosU-um superciliosum Haktlaub, Rev. Zool., 1844, 215. 



Panda superciliosaScLATETi, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 299 (LaParada, Oaxaca); 



1859, 373 (Talea, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 26 (La Parada).— Sclatek 



and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 10 (Guatemala).— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 



169, 171 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; alpine reg.).— Sumichkast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 



N. H., i, 1869, 545 (alpine region. Vera Cruz).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Oentr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 122, pi. 8, fig. 2 (Quezaltenango, Volcan de Fuego, 



ridge above Ohuacus, and Santa Barbara, Guatemala, etc.).— Shaepe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 255, 642 (near City of Mexico; Ciudad Durango; 



Oaxaca; Calderas, Guatemala, etc.). 

 IParula'] supereilioaa Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8. 

 "Plarula']" supereiliosa Baied, Bbbwek, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 208, in text. 

 IMniotilUi,'] mperdliosa Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3450. 

 Oreothlypis supereiliosa Ridgway, Auk, i, April, 1884, 169; Man. N. Am. Birds, 



1887, 481, footnote, in text. 

 Clompsothlypis'] mmcana Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 21 (Mexico; coll. Berlin 



Mus.; ex Sylvia mexicana Lichtenstein, manuscript). 

 [Parula'] mexicana Bonapabte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 310.— Baird, Rep. Pacific 



R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 237, footnote. 

 Hypothymis mexicana lACUTENSimis, Journ. fiir Orn., Jan., 1863, 58. 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



Chloris (not of Cuvier, 1799) BoiB, Isis, 1826, 972. (Type, Parus amerimnus 



Linnaeus.) 

 Sylvicola (not of Harris, 1782, nor of Humphrey, 1797) Swainson, Zool. Journ., 



iii, July, 1827, 160. (Type, Parus americanus Linnreus. ) 

 Parula (not Parulus Spix, 1824) Bonapakte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 20. 



(Type, Parus americanus Linnseus.) 

 Compsothlypis^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20. (Type, Parus americanus 

 Linnaeus. ) 

 Small arboreal Mniotiltidse with narrowly wedge-shaped acute bill, 

 distinct rictal bristles, and basal phalanx of middle toe united for 

 greater part of its length to outer toe. 



Bill much shorter than head, narrowly wedge-shaped and acute, but 

 with culmen perceptibly curved, at least toward tip; maxillary tomium 

 without subterminal notch. Nostril longitudinally oval or subcuneate, 

 overhung by rather broad operculum. Rictal bristles distinct. Wing 

 moderate or rather long, rather pointed (four outermost primaries 

 abruptly longest and nearly equal, but varying in relative length); 

 wing-tip decidedly shorter than tarsus. Tail shorter than distance 

 from bend of wing to tip of secondaries, emarginate. Tarsus much 

 longer than commissure, decidedly less than one-third as long as wing, 



' From Gr. Ko/j-ipoi and 0?iv7Cii. Kojurpos = cared for, adorned, elegant, from 

 Konsoo, I take care of {cfr. L. comptus and como) , and kindred with KOfirj (L. coma), 

 the hair considered as an ornament for the head. QXvitii, a name of a bird said to 

 be found in some codiceL of Aristoteles (VUl, 5. 4) where others have Bpavitli, or 

 Bpamg, a thistle-eating bird, not determinable (from Bpavoo, 1 break, with which is 

 kindred BXdoo, of the same signification, and S\i/3oo, 1 rub. Spavvii, Bpaicii, BXatii, 

 BXvTti{!).—Ccm-pso-thly'-pis. (Stejneger, Auk, i, 1884, 168, footnote.) 



