PROTONOTARIA. 



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PROTONOTARIA, Baikd. 

 Protonotaria, Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1S5S, 239. (Type Motacilla ciirea, Bodd.) 



Protonotaria citrea. 



Motacilla citrea, Bodd. Tabl. 1783 (PI. enl. 704, fig. 2).— Protonotaria 

 citrea, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 239.— Sclatek, Catal. 1861, 26, 

 no. 166.— GuNDL. Cub. Jour. 1861, 324 (Cuba ; very rare).— ZTe/- 

 mintho]}haga citrea, Cab. Jour. 1861, 85 (Costa Rica). 



Motacilla protonotarius, Gm. — Sylvia prot. Lath. — Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. 

 11, pi. Ixxxiii. — Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, pi. xxiv, fig. 2. — Aud. Orn. 

 Biog. II, pi. iii. — Vermivora prot. Bon. — Ilelinaia prot. Aud. — Hel- 

 mithpTiis prot. Bon. — Compsothlypis prot. Cab. Jour. 



Motacilla auricollis, Gmel. I, 1788, 984. — Sylvia aur. Lath., etc. (based, 

 on Le Grand Figuier du Canada, Brisson, Ois. Ill, 1760, 508, pi. 

 xxvi, fig. 1). Female. — Sylvicola aur. Nutt. Man. I, 1840, 431. 



Hah. Eastern province of U. S. (southern region) ; Cuba, Costa Rica, and 

 Panama R. R. Not recorded from Mexico or Guatemala. Accidental in New 

 Brunswick (G. A. Boardman in letter). 



Locality. 



When 



Collected. 



S. Illinois. 

 Independence, Mo. 

 Neosho Falls, Kans. 

 Cherokee Nation. 

 Punta Arenas, C. R. 

 Panama. 



May 9. 

 1857. 



June 2.1. 

 Jan. 1864. 

 1863. 



Received from 



R. Kennicott. 

 W. M. Magraw. 

 B. F. Goss. 

 Dr. Woodhouse. 

 Capt. J. M. Dow. 

 Cab. Lawrence. 



Collected by 



Dr. J. G. Cooper 



(34,102.) Iris dark chestnut. 



HELMINTHOPHAGA, Cabanis. 

 Helminthophaga, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1, 1850-1, 20. (Type Sylvia rujicapilla, Wils.) 



The discovery, since the article on Helminthophaga in " Birds X. 

 Am." was written, of two new species, allied to rufico/piUa, in having 

 a concealed brown patch in the crown, renders a new diagnosis de- 

 sirable of section B. 



B. Tail without any conspicuous white patch, and wings without 

 light bands. 



Concealed patch in crown orange-brown. Color uniformly 



olive-green above and yellowish beneath . . . celata. 

 Concealed patch in crown chestnut-brown. 



Olive-green above ; the head and neck ashy. Beneath, 



including lining of wings, bright yellow. Wing and 



tail feathers edged with olive ..... rujicapilla. 



Cinereous above ; the rump and crissum yellowish. 



Beneath, with lining of wings, dirty white, tinged 



