BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 487 



no. 4, 1876, 15 (Santa Eflgenia and Tehuan tepee, Oaxaca, Oct., Jan.).— 

 SuMiCHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, win- 

 ter).— Allbn, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 124, 175 (Kansas, etc.); Am. 

 Nat, vi, 1872, 265 (Leaevnworth, Kansas) .—Aiken, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., 

 XV, 1872, 196 (Colorado, 1 spec, May 11.)— Coues, Checl?; List, 1873, no. 

 58, part, 2d ed., 1882, no. 93, part; Birds N. W., 1874, 46, part; Birds Col. 

 Val., 1878, 208, part.— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 141 (w. Missouri, 

 breeding).— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 196 (Colorado).— 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 4 (Leavenworth).— Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., 

 V, 1873, 180 (Colorado); Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 88, part.— Ames, Bull. 

 Minn. Ac. Sci., 1874, 55 (Minnesota).— B.\ied, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 208, part; iii, 1874, 504 (El Paso Co., Colorado).— 

 Nehkling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 8 (s. e. Texas, breeding).— Hay, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 90 (Memphis, Tennessee, and Vicksburg 

 and Jackson, Mississippi, breeding).— Mberiam, Auk, ii, 1885, 377 (St. 

 Louis, Missouri, breedings descr. nest). 



[Panda] amerwana Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 93, part.— Sclatbk and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8, part., 



P[arula'i americana Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 368 (Illinois, breed- 

 ing).— Boies, Cat. Birds s. Mich., 1875, no. 22 (breeding).— Nelson, Bull. 

 Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 98 (n. e. Illinois, breeding).— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 290, part. 



MlniotiUa'] americana Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196, part. 



MlniotUta] americana Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3448, part. 



Compsothlypis americana Steqneger, Auk, i, 1884, 170, part. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 648, part. — Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 131.— Goss, Birds Kansas, 1891, 547 (e. Kansas, breeding).— Nehrling, 

 Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 193, part.— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xvi, 1893, 484 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua, 1 spec, Oct. 26).— Beyer, Proc. 

 Louisiana Soc Nat. for 1897-99 (1900), 112 (Louisiana, breeding). 



Clompsothlypis] americana Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491, part. 



C[Uoris americana'] Jordan, Man. Vertebr. E. U. S., 4th ed., 1884, 60, part. 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI SPECIOSA Ridgway. 

 CHUtlQUI FARULA WARBLER. 



Similar to C. jp. pitiaywmi^^ but darker and bluer above, throat and 

 chest deeper orange-ochraceous, and middle wing-coverts without 

 white tips; similar in last-mentioned character to P. p. inoniata, but 

 much more richly colored. 



Adult male. — Above dull indigo blue, relieved by a triangular patch 

 of olive-green occupying the interscapular region; lores, suborbital 

 region, and anterior margin of forehead black; outermost greater 

 wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, but no white tips to middle 



•Compsothlypis pitiaynmi pitiayumi (Vieillot). 

 Sylvia pitiayumi Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ii, 1816, 276; Compsothlypis 

 pitiayumi Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 21; C[ompsothlypis] plitiayumi] 

 pitiayumi Ridgway, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 69 in text. — Stjlvia venusta Tem- 

 minck, PI. Col., livr. 49, 1824, pi. 293, fig. 1. — Sylma plumbea Swainson, Zool. 

 lUustr., ii, 1821-22, pi. 139. — Parula brasiliana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 310. 



