4. PKOTONOTAEIA. 249 



line tinge on the throat and breast, slightly browner on the sides of 

 the latter and flanks ; thighs ashy ; iiuder tail-coverts white ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky below, white 

 along the edge of the inner web : "feet dull leaden olive ; iris dark 

 brown or black " (Co!«fs). Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-35, 

 wing 2-15, tail 1*65, tarsus 0-65. {Mus. Salvin and Gochnan.) 



Adult male. Similar to the female. Total length 3'8 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2*25, tail l-oo, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. " Lacks the chestnut of the crown, though that of the 

 rump is present ; the throat and breast are milk-white, without 

 the ochry tinge of the adults ; the wing-coverts are edged with pale 

 rufous.'' (Coues.) 



Hob. Valley of the Colorado, not yet found outside of Arizona. 



a, (S ad. sk. Tuczon, Arizona, April 13 U.S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



(E. W. Nelson). 



4. PROTONOTARIA. ,^ 



Type. 



Protonotaria, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 235 (1858) P. citrea. 



^. 



Bill of Protonotaria citrea. 



Range. Eastern United States ; throughout Central America to 

 Colombia and Venezuela ; Cuba. 



1. Protonotaria citrea. 



Le Grand Figuier de Canada, Briss. Ovn. iii. p. 508, pi. 26. fig. 1 



(1760). 

 Figuier a ventre et tete jaunes de la Louisiane, Datcbent. PI. Enl. vi. 



704. fig. 2. 

 Figuier a gorge orangee, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 290 (1778). 

 Figuier Protonotaire, Buf. 'Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 316 (1778). 

 Prothonotary Warbler, Loth. Gen. Si/>i. ii. pt. 2, p. 494 (1783). 

 Motacilla citrea, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 44 (1783). 

 Orange-throat AVarbler, Petin. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 408 (1785). 

 Motacilla protonotarius, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 972 (1788). 

 Motacilla auricollis, Gm. Sy.<it. Nat. i. p. 984 (1788). 

 Sylvia auricollis, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 536 (1790). 

 Sylvia protonotaria, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 542 (1790) ; Vieill. Ois. 



Amer. Sept. ii. p. 27, pi. 83 (1807) : Wilson, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 72, 



pi. 24. fig. 3 (1811) ; Audub. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 22 (1832), v. p. 461 



(1839). 

 Dacnis protonotaria, Auduh. B. Amer. pi. iii. 



SylvicoLi protonotaria, Richards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 171. 

 ^'erraivoia protonotarius, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 3(i2, pi. 24. 



fig. 3 (1832) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 21 (1838). 

 Helinaia protonotarius, Audub. Si/ti. p. G7 (1839); id. B. Amer. 



ii. p. 89, pi. 106 (1841). 

 Svlvicola auricollis, Nuttall, Man. 1840, p. 431. 

 Muiotilta citrea, Grai/, Gen. 5. i. p. 196 (1848); id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 2.39, uo. 3454(1869). 



