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ceed furtber uortb, but some appear to breed all along tbe line, as I bavo 

 found it about Wasbingtou early in August, and Mr. Scott saw it in 

 West Virginia during tbe summer. We find it in orcbards wben tbe 

 fruit trees are blossoming, and in all sorts of woodland, but particularly 

 in bigh open forests, wbere it will be observed fluttering and skipping 

 with great activity in tbe terminal foliage. I never found its nest, and tbe 

 only one I bave examined was taken in Taunton, Massachusetts, early in 

 June. Tbis was an irregular mass of fine, light colored tree-moss, inex- 

 tricably matted, with a small deep cavity. The single egg in tbis nest 

 measured 0.70 by 0.57, and was white, finely sprinkled at the large end 

 with reddish dots, having also a few others scattered elsewhere. 



The changes of plumage of tbis dainty little Warbler are great with 

 age, sex and season, and I once procured a curious partial albino, which 

 had the plumage irregulai-ly blotched with pure white. 



PEOTOXOTAEIA CITR^A, (Bodd.) Bd. 

 Protlioiiotary Warbler. 



MotaciUa dircea, Bodd., PI. Enl. 704, f. 2 (1783). 



MutotiUa cHnva, Gkay, Genera of Birds. 



Frotonoturia cUra-a, Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 239 ; Eev. 1864. 173.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 

 1860, No. 65.— GuNDL., J. f. O. 1861, 324 (Cuba, rare).— Coues & Prext., 

 Smiths. Rep. 1861, 406 (Wasbingtou, D. C, accidental).— Scl., Cat. 1862, 26.— 

 Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 21 (quotes "Calais, Me., Boardman, Verr. Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. ix, 234")- — Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 1868, 107 (South Carolina, summer, 

 rare).— TuRNB., B. E. Pa. 1869 (straggler).— Lvft K., Ann. Lvc. ix, 1668, 94 

 (Costa Rica); 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Scl. & Saev., P. Z. S. 1870,^780 (Merida).— 

 Coues, Key, 1872, 93, fig. 36.— Sxow, B. Kaus. 1872 (Neosho Falls, breeding). 



Hclmintltopluifia cilra'a, Cab., J. 1'. O. 1861, 75 (Costa Rica). 



MotaciUa pro(onotarU(s, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 972. 



Sylvia 2iroto)iotarius, Lath., Intl. Orn. ii, 1790, 542. — Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 27, 

 pi. 83.- WiES., Am. Orn. iii, 1811, 72, pi. 24, f. 3.— Bp., Syu. 1828, 86.— NuiT., 

 Man. i, 1832, 410.— Aud., Oru. Biog. i, 1832, 22 ; v, 1839, 460; pi. 3. 



Siilria {Damis) proionoiarius, Bp., Journ. Phila. Acad, iv, 1825, 196. 



I'cnnivora prntouotavius, Bp., List, 1838, 21.— AVoodh., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 72 (Indian Ter- 

 ritory, breeding). — Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438 (Western Missouri). 



Heliuaia pro uiiotarius, AuD., Syn. 1839, 67. — Aud., B. Am. ii, 1841, 89, pi. 106 (gis-es 

 Texas to Nova Scotia and Sasketchewan !). 



Hclmiilirrns proionotarius, Bp., Cocsp. Av. 1850, 314. 



CompHOthlijpiH prolonotarius, C.\1J., Mus. Heiu. i, 1850, 20. 



Duh. — Eastern United States, southerly. North occasionally to Maryland aud Penn- 

 sylvania, aud even Maine. Ohio. Illinois. Kentucky. Kiinsas. Missouri. Cuba. 

 Costa Rica. Pauama. Merida. 



This species was noticed by neither Expedition ; it only reaches the 

 lowermost Mis.souri. According to Dr. Woodbouse. it breeds in tbe In- 

 dian Territory, and it has also been found breeding at Neosho Falls, 

 Kansas, by Mr. B. Y. Goss, and at the Kiowa Agency by Dr. Palmer. 

 Tbe nest is built in tbe hole of a tree, oitenest a deserted Woodpecker's, 

 or even, as in the instance of a nest before me in tbe Smitb.souian, in a 

 mill-frame. It is a sligiit and inartistic affair, flat and little hollowed, 

 measuring about four inches across outside by scarcely over an inch in 

 depth. It is built of various coar.se librous strips, Moven in with a mat- 

 tinj^- of very tine mo.s.sy and downy substances, with some patches of 

 tur, api)arently from a rabbit ; the lining is chiefly of fine rootlets. It 

 contained live eggs, white, thickly spotted all over, but most heavily at 

 tbe larger end, with reddish and slaty-brown or neutral tint. An egg 

 of anotber .set from tbe Jviowa Agency is still more boldly blotched in 

 larger j)attern. Two specimens, selectetl as extremes, measure, respect- 

 ively, 0.70 by 0..^5 and O.OS by 0.."»S, the latter being remarkably rounchMl, 

 while the others are all al.so quite noticeably obtuse at tbe snmller end. 



