182 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



MNIOTILTIDAE. 



Me. Common migrant and local summer resident. (April 27) 

 May 3-Oct. 5. Eggs, May 25- June 21. 



N. H. Common migrant and less common summer resident at 

 lower altitudes. April 27-Sept. 29. Eggs, June 24. 



Vt. Common migrant and summer resident. May 5 fall. 

 Eggs, June 20. 



Mass. Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 18) Ap; il 28-Oet. 29 (Dec. 5). Eggs, May 17-June 22. 



R. I. Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 15) May 1-Oct. 7. Eggs, May 21, 23. 



Conn. Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 20) April 25-Oct. 10. Eggs, May 20- June 4. 



336. Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert) Baird. 

 Prothonotary warbler; Golden swamp warbler. 



Chapman, Warblers No. Amer., 1907, p. 54, pi. 3, fig. 3-4. 



Motacilla citrea Bodd., Tabl. d. planch, enlum. d'hist. nat., 

 1783, p. 44. Description in Buft'on: " Louisianie." 



Bushy and tree-grown swamps; nests generally in cavities of 

 stumps or dead trees. 



Me. Accidental visitor: Calais, Oct. 30, 1862. 

 Vt. Doubtfully recorded. 

 Mass. Accidental visitor. May 1-Sept. 15. 

 R. I. Accidental visitor: Lonsdale, April 29, 1892, April 19, 

 1893; South Kingston, April 20 or 21, 1S84. 



337. Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 



Worm-eating warbler. 



Motacilla mervimor a [= vermivora] Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 951. "in Pensilvania." 



Helinaia vermivora Lath. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1841, 

 vol. 2, p. 86, pi. 105. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 3, fig. 6. 



