Parula (par ola)

[NL. (Bonaparte, 1838), dim. of Parus, q. v.] A genus of diminutive American creeping warblers of highly variegated coloration, belonging to the family Sylvico lidæ or Mniotiltidæ; the blue yellow-backed warblers. P. american a is a beautiful little bird of eastern North America, migratory and insectivorous, inhabiting woodland, above blue with golden-brown inter scapulars, below yellow and white with a golden-brown spot on the breast, the lores dusky, the eyelids touched with white, the wings cro ed with two white bars, the tail-feathers extensively blotched with white; the length is 43 inches, the extent of wings 74. A related species of Texas and southward is P. nigrilora, and there are others, as P. pitiayumi. Also called Compsothlypis. parulis (pa-röʻlis), n. paruns pa-ro [= F. parulie = Sp. pa rulis = Pg. parulia, parulida,