486 BULLETITSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Clhloris'] americana Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. V. S., 4th ed., 1884, 60, part. 



Compsothlypis americanci iimese Bn^wsTKR, Auk, xiii, Jan., 1896, 44 (Lake Umba- 

 gog, Maine; coll. W. Brewster). — American Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 mittee, Auk, xiv, 1897, 123.— (?)Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 43 (Muskoka, 

 etc., n. Ontario, breeding). 



COMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA RAMALIN.ffii Ridgway. 



WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 



Similar in coloration to C. a. iisnece, but smaller even than O. a. 

 americana. 



Adult male.— L,eugth (skins), 9^105 (94.8); wing, 64.5-61.5 (57.5); 

 tail, 39-45 (40.9); exposed culmen, 8-11 (9.9); tarsus, 16-17 (16.5).' 



Adult female.— Ijength (skins), 97-101 (98.3); wing, 52.5-54(53.5); 

 tail, 37.5-40 (38.5); exposed culmen, 9-10.5 (9.8); tarsus, 14.5-16.5 

 (15.8).' 



Syhy'ia americana (not Parus americaniis Linnaeus) Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1832, 



78, part. 

 Sylvicola americana Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 59, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 

 1841, 57, part. — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuiii and Col. R., 1853, 

 71.— Hoy, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, 1853, 311 (Wisconsin).— Read, Proe. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi., 1853, 399 (n. Ohio).— Pratten, Trans. Ills. Agric. 

 Soc, 1855, 602 (Illinois).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 202 (Tlac- 

 otalpam. Vera Cruz). — Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst, vi, 1871, 114 (Minnesota). 

 Parula americana Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List. 1838, 20, part. — Baied, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 238, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 168, part; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 169, part. — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, 10 (Guatemala).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (San Antonio, Texas).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 200 (Yucatan); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



'From Ramalina, a genus of lichens, species of which are very abundant in 

 bottom-land forests of the lower Mississippi Valley, where in many localities fre- 

 quented by the present bird it is much more abundant than Usnea, if not altogether 

 replacing the latter. 



^Twenty-six specimens. 



' Three specimens. 



Average measurements for different localities are as follows: 



The coloration is very uniform throughout the extensive area inhabited by this 

 form, breeding males from Louisiana and Texas being as richly colored and with as 

 conspicuous a dusky chest-band as those from Minnesota and Michigan. 



