182 FAUNA OF XEW EXCT.AXi:*. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



MNIOTILTID.AE. 



]\_[e. — Common migrant and local summer resident. (April 27) 

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



X. H. — Common migrant and less common summer resident at 

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



Vt. — Common migrant and summer resident. JNIay 5-fall. 

 Eggs, June 20. 



Mxss. — Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 18) Apiil 28-Oct. 29 (Dec. 5). Eggs, ^^lay 17-June 22. 



R I — Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

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



Coxx. — 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. 



MofaciUa ciirea Bodd., TaV)l. d. i)lanch. enlum. d'hist. nat., 

 1783, ]). 44. I)cscrii)tion in Button : "Louisiaxie." 



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, Ai)ril 19, 

 1893; South Kingston, April 20 or 21, 1884. 



337. Hei.mitiieros vermivorus (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 



Worm-eating warbler. 



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

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



Helinaia vermivora Lath. Audul)on, Birds of Amer., 1841, 

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



