BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 49] 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 89.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, 1,1880,121; Ibis, 1889, 236 (Tampico, Tamaulipas; NuevoLeon; Valles, 



San Luis Potosi). 

 [Panda] pitiayumi var. nigrilora Coues, Birds Col. Val. ,1878, 208, footnote, in text. 

 Parula pitiayumi nigrilora Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ill, Aug. 24, 1880, 171; 



Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 89a. 

 [Parula pitiayumi.'] Subsp. /3. Parula nigrilora Shaepe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



X, 1885, 261, pi. 11, flg. 2. 

 P[arula] nigrilora Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 291. 

 CompsotMypis nigrilora Stejnegeb, Auk, i, Apr., 1884, 170. — American Oeni- 



THOLOGiSTs' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 649. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 



1888,244 (Fort Brown, Texas).— Nehkling, Our Native Birds, etc., i, 1893, 



195. 

 C[ompsotMypis'] nigrilora Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 491. 



COMPSOTHLYPIS PITIAYUMI PULCHRA (Brewster). 

 BEAUTITUL PARTOA WARBLER. 



Similar to O. j>. nigrilora, but larger and with much more white on 

 wing-coverts, that on greater coverts occupying more than exposed 

 half (sometimes extending quite to tips of middle coverts) in adult 

 male; flanks more often and more strongly tinged with rusty or pale 

 chestnut. Similar also to C.p. insularis but smaller; flanks paler and 

 less strongly tinged with chestnut; white on wing-coverts much more 

 extended; white siibterminal spot on inner webs of lateral rectrices 

 much larger, always distinct on second, sometimes present on third; 

 adult male with lores and orbits distinctly blackish. 



Young, first phimage. — ^Above plain brownish gray, the back slightly 

 tinged with olive; beneath dull white, the sides of breast slightly tinged 

 with gray, the upper throat and center of breast faintly tinged with 

 pale yellow; white wing-bands much narrower than in adults. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 99.1-101.6 (99.8); wing, 53.3-56.9 

 (54.6); tail, 39.1-43.9 (41); exposed culmen, 9.6-9.9 (9.7); tarsus, 

 15.5-16 (15.7); middle toe, 9.6-10 (9.9).^ 



Achtlt female.— Ijeugth (skin), 96.6; wing, 51.8; tail, 39.6; tarsus, 

 15.7; middle toe, 9.6.' 



Western Mexico, in States of Chihuahua (Hacienda San Rafael), 

 Sinaloa (Presidio; Plomosas), and Jalisco (Barranca Ibarra). 



Parula nigrilora (not of Coues) Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 643 



(Presidio, near Mazatlan, w. Mexico). 

 CompsotMypis pulchra Brewster, Descr. Supposed New Birds from "W. North 

 Am. and Hex., Jan. 31, 1889, 93; Auk, vi, Apr., 1889, 93 (Hacienda de San 

 Eafa«l, Chihuahua, n. w. Mexico; coll. W. Brewster). 



1 Three specimens. ' One specimen. 



