11^ MNIOTILTID^. 



EicA \ San Jose and Grecia (Carmiol ^% Dota Mountains (v. Frantzius "); Panama, 

 David (Hides ^), Volcan de Chiriqui, Calovevora {ArcS ^% Lion Hill (M'Leannan^^). 

 —Colombia ^^ 20. ^ 



In its southern migration this species barely touches Mexico, though it has been 

 several times reported from that country 2 3. In Cuba it is even more rare, as Dr. 

 Gundlach tells us that only two specimens have as yet come under his notice i^. In 

 Guatemala, especially in the vicinity of Coban, and thence southwards to the isthmus 

 of Panama, the bird is a common one in the winter months ; and here it must be that 

 most of the birds rest during that season. In South America its presence is only known 

 at the extreme north-western end of the continent. Here Mr. Simons obtained examples 

 near Minea in the Sierra Nevada of. Santa Marta^o, and Mr. Wyatt others in the valley 

 of the Magdalena ^^. 



In the States this species is known as the " Tennessee Warbler," it having been dis- 

 covered by Alexander Wilson in that State ; but in all but the most northern States it 

 is a bird of passage, breeding in comparatively high latitudes ^\ Its range and habits 

 are given by Dr. Brewer ^^, who also describes its nest as being a nearly flat bed of dry 

 matted stems of grass, less than an inch in thickness, and three inches in diameter. 



PAEULA. 



Parula, Bonaparte, Comp. List^ p. 20 (1838) (type Parus americanus, Linn.) ; Baird, Brew. & 



. Eidgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 207. 

 Compsothlypis, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 20 (1850-51). 



In this genus the bill is acute as in Helminthophaga ; but a subterminal notch is 

 faintly shown, and the rictal bristles are distinct and strong though short ; the tarsus 

 is longer than the middle toe ; the more typical species have a triangular patch of 

 olive-green on the back, and white spots on the tail. P. superciliosa and P. gutturalis 

 have the tail without spots — the former with the back entirely olive-green, and the latter 

 with a black triangular dorsal patch. Six species of the seven constituting the genus 

 are included in this work, of which P. americana, the only strictly northern bird, enters 

 our limits as a winter immigrant. P. inomata, P. insularis, and P. nigrilora are all 

 slight modifications of the southern P. pitiayumi ; the first-named ranging from Guate- 

 mala to the State of Panama, the second peculiar to the Tres Marias islands and Socorro, 

 and the last to the Eio-Grande valley. P. superciliosa is restricted to the highlands of 

 Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and P. gutturalis to the mountains of Costa Eica and 

 the adjoining parts of the State of Panama. 



