488 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



coverts; inner webs of two outermost rectrices with a large, subter- 

 minal subquadrate patch of white, the third rectrix sometimes with a 

 small white subterminal spot; malar region, chin, breast, sides, flanks, 

 and abdomen rich lemon yellow; throat and chest deep orange-ochra- 

 ceous; anal region, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts white; 

 maxilla black, mandible pale colored (yellowish in life); iris brown; 

 legs and feet horn brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 83.8-104 

 (94.9); wing, 47.5-55 (52.5); tail, 35.3-41 (39.1); exposed culmen, 

 9.1-10 (9.7); tarsus, 15.7-18 (16.1); middle toe, 9.9-10.4 (10.1).' 



Adidt female.— Similar to the adult male, but usually slightly duller 

 in color, with white tips to outermost greater wing-coverts less dis- 

 tinct, and the throat and chest less deeply orange-ochraceous, or yel- 

 low slightly tinged with that color; length (skins), 92.7-104.1 (98.9); 

 wing, 47.5-51. S (49.6); tail, 35.3-38.6 (36.9); exposed culmen (one 

 specimen), 9.1; tarsus, 15.2-15.5 (15.3); middle toe, 9.6-9.9 (9.7).^ 



Nicaragua (Ometepe) to Chiriqui (Boquete de Chitra; Volcan de 

 Chiriqui) and Veragua (Calobre). 



Parula inoniala Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 171, part (Angostura and Dofa, 

 Costa Kica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 93 (Barranca, Angos- 

 tura, and Dota Mts., Costa Eica). — Salvador:, Atti. Eoy. Ac. Sci. Torino, 

 iv, 1868, 172 (Costa Eica).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 292 (Costa 

 Kica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 182, part (Volcan de Chiriqui 

 and Boquete de Chitra, Chiriqui; Calobre, Veragua). — Salvin and-GoDMAN, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 120, part (Barranca, Angostura, and Dota 

 Mts., Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui and Boquete de Chitra, Chiriqui; Calo- 

 bre, Veragua). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 391 (Ometepe, 

 Nicaragua). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 643, part (Turrialba, 

 Costa Eica; Volcan de Chiriqui; Boquete de Chitra). 

 \^Parula\ inornata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 8, part. 

 [Parula pitiayumi] var. inornata Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, i, 1874, 208, part (Costa Eica). 

 [Parula pitiayumi.^ Subsp. a. Parula inornata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., a, 



1885, 260, part (Costa Eica; Chiriqui). 

 C[ompsothlypis'] inornata Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 492, part. 

 Compsothlypis inornata Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 106 



(Naranjo de Cartage; Dota). 

 Compsothlypis pilluymni specio.iii Eidgway, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 69 (Boquete, 

 Chiriqui; coll. U S.Nat. Mus.). 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI INORNATA (Baird). 

 GUATEMALAN PARULA WARBLER, 



Similar to O. p. specima, but much duller in color (bluish slate- 

 gray instead of dull indigo blue above, the chest but slightly tinged 

 with orange-ochraceous). Similar also to C. p. nigrilora, but with 

 the flanks and abdomen (except extreme lower portion) yellow, without 

 white tips to middle wing-coverts (or else with these v6ry indistinct, 

 and with only the outermost (if any) greater coverts tipped with white. 



' Eleven specimens. '^ Two specimens. 



