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Admit male. — Above plain bluish slate color or dark plumbeous, 

 relieved by a triangular patch of olive-green occupying the interscap- 

 ular region; lores, anterior portion of forehead, and suborbital region 

 blackish; outermost middle and greater wing-coverts sometimes with 

 indistinct white or pale grayish terminal spots; inner webs of two to 

 three outermost rectrices with a subterminal spot of white, largest on 

 outermost rectrix; under parts yellow (gamboge or lemon), becoming 

 yellowish white on lower abdomen and anal region, the chest slightly 

 tinged with orange-ochraceous, the flanks tinged with olive; under tail- 

 coverts and under wing-coverts white; maxilla black, mandible pale 

 colored (yellowish in life?); legs and feet dark horn brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skins), 92.7-97.8 (95.2); wing, 50-51.6 (51); tail, 37.3- 

 40(38.9); exposed culmen, 9-9.4 (9.1); tarsus, 15.2-16.8 (16); middle 

 toe, 9.4-9.6 (9.5).^ 



Aduit female. — Similar to the adult male, but slightly paler and 

 duller in color; length (skin), 91.4; wing, 47.5; tail, 36.6; exposed 

 culmen, 9; tarsus, 14.5; middle toe, 8.4.^ 



Young., first plumage. — Above plain grayish olive, inclining to olive- 

 green on back; middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly tipped 

 with pale grayish; under parts dull white, the chest and sides of breast 

 shaded with pale olive-grayish. 



Highlands of Guatemala (Choctum) and Chiapas (Ocuilapa; near 

 Tuxtla Gutierrez). 



Parula brasUiana (not Sylvia brasiliana Lichtenstein) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 



1860, 397 (Guatemala). 

 [Parula] inomata Baikd, Review Am. Birds, Nov., 1864, 169.— Sclater and 



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

 Parula inomata Baird, Review Am. Birds, Nov., 1864, 171, part (type from 



Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. O. Salvin).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lend., 1870, 182, part (Choctum) .—Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, i, 1880, 120, part, pi. 8, fig. 1 (Choctum).- Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., X, 1885, 643, part (Choctum). 

 {Mniotiltal inomata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 238, no. 3451. 

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



Birds, i, 1874, 208, part (Guatemala). 

 CompsotMypis pitiayumi inomata SrsJNEQER, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 170. 

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



1885, 260, part (Guatemala). 

 C[(mpsothlypis\ inonwria Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 492, part (Guatemala). 

 CompsotUypis inomatus Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 159 (near Tuxtla Gutierrez, e. 



Chiapas). 

 C[ompsothlypis] p[itiayumi'] inornata Ridgway, Auk, xix, Jan., 1902, 69, in text. 



' Three specimens. '' One specimen, from Ocuilapa, Chiapas. 



