BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 445 



[Protonofaria] ciirea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8. — Cory, List 



Birds W. I., 1885, 7 (Cuba). 

 Plrotonotaria'] ciirea Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 98 (n. e. Illinois, rare 



summer visit. ) . — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 291. — Ridgway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 484. 

 [Protonotaria'] citrxa Coues, Key, 1872, 93. 



Protonotaria citr^a Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 59; Birds N. W., 1874, 47. 

 P[rotonotaria^ citriea Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 42 (near Chicago, 2 



specs., summer). 

 Helmmthophaga ciirea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix. Mar., 1861, 85 (Costa Rica). 

 [Moiacilla'] protonotarius Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 972 (based on Flguier Protono- 



taire Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 316; ProtJionoiary Warbler Latham, Gen. 



Synop., ii, pt. 2, 494). 

 [Sylvia^ proionoiariux Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 542. 

 Sylcia protonotarius Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 27, pi. 83.— Wilson, Am. 



Orn., iii, 1811, 72, pi. 24, fig. 3. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 



1824, 195; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 86.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 



i, 1832, 410.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 22; v, 1S39, 460. 

 Sylvia protonotaria Vieillot, Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 211, pi. D22, fig. 2. 

 Sylvicola protonotaria Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 171. 

 Vermivora protonotarius J ardihe, ed. Wilson's Aul Orn., i, 1832, 362, pi. 24, fig. 



3. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp._ List, 1838, 21.— Wi)()I)iiouse, Sitgreaves' 



Exped. Zuni and Col., 1853, 72 (Indian Territory; Texas).— Hoy, Ann. Rep. 



Smithson. Inst, for 1864 (1865), 438 (Missouri). 

 Helinaia protuiiotanus AuDVBOii, Synopsis, 1839, 67; Birds Am., oct. ed., ii, 1841, 



89, pi. 106. 

 Dacnis proUmotaria Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed., pi. 3. 

 \_Helmitheros'] protonotarius 'QoviK-pAB.'TE, Consp. Av., i, 1S50, 314. 

 Hlelminihophaga'] protonotarius Cabanu^, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 

 [Motacilla^ auricoUis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 984 (bas(!d on Le Grand Figvier 



de Ca7iada Brisson, Orn., iii, 508, pi. 26, fig. 1, etc.). 

 ISylvia] auricoUis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 536. 

 Sylvia auricoUis YimhhOT, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 447. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 



and Can., i, 1832, 380. 

 Sylvicola auricoUis Nuttall, ]Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 431. 

 Mlniotilta'] auricoUis Gray, (Ten. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



Genus HELM INTHOPHILA Ridgway. 



Hclminthophuga^ (not of Bechstein, 1802) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20. 



(Type, Moiacilla chrysoplcra Linnanis. ) 

 Helminthophila Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan. 1882, 53. (Type, Sylvia 

 rubricapilla Wilson.) • 

 Siimll Mniotiltidw (wing- less than 63.5 nnn.) with the bill much 

 shorter than head, narrowly wedge-shaped, ver}' acute at tip, without 

 subterminal toniial notch; rictal bristles obsolete; dift'erence in length 

 between wing and tail nearly if not quite equal to one-fourth the length 

 of the former. 



Bill nuich shorter than head, narrowly wedge-shaped, with tip very 

 acute; cidmen straight or with terminal portion very faintly decurved; 

 maxillary tomium without subterminal notch. Nostril longitudinally 



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