298 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 
1. Bill fully twice as long as wide at base ; tail a little shorter than wings. 
SYLVANIA, 517. 
ll. Bill scarcely twice as long as wide at base, formed much as in a Fly- 
catcher; tail about as long as wings... . . . . SETOPHAGA, 518, 
507. MNIOTILTA Vieillot. (jviov, moss; riddAo, I pluck.) 
958. M. varia (L.). Buack AND WHITE CREEPER. Every- 
where black and white, streaked; crown with a broad white stripe; 
wing bars white; 9 similar, grayer. L.5. W. 23. T. 21. E.N. 
Am., not rare; a beautiful warbler, with the habits of a nut-hatch. 
508. PROTONOTARIA Baird. (Lat., first notary.) 
959. P. citrea (Boddaert). PROTHONOTARY WARBLER, 
GOLDEN-HEADED WARBLER. Front and lower parts brilliant 
yellow; back olivaceous ; wings and tail dusky; rump ashy ; bill 
long. L. 54. W. 3. T. 21. 8S. U.58., N. to Wabash Valley, in 
bushy swamps; rather rare, a most beautiful bird. (Lat., lemon- 
yellow. ) 
509. HELINAIA Audubon. (€Aos, swamp; vaiw, to dwell.) 
960. H. swainsoni Audubon. Chiefly olive-brown, reddish on 
top of head; a dusky loral streak, bordered above by a brownish 
white superciliary stripe; head with a paler median streak ; yel- 
lowish white below. L.6. W.2. T. 2. S.C. to Texas, N. to 
S. Ind.; rare. (To Wm. Swainson.) 
510. HELMITHERUS Rafinesque. (€Apivs, bug; Onpda, 
to hunt.) 
961. H. vermivorus (Gmelin). WormM-EraTinc Swamp 
WARBLER. Olive green; head buffy, with four black stripes ; 
buffy below; 9 similar. L. 53. W. 3. T. 23. E.U.S., N. to 
L. Erie. (Lat., worm-eating. ) 
511. HELMINTHOPHILA Ridgway. (édpuws, bug; gidds, 
loving.) 
a. Tail feathers with distinct white blotches; wings with bands or patches of 
white or yellow. 
6. Throat and ear-coverts black in gf, dusky gray in 9. 
962. H. chrysoptera! (L.). GOLDEN-wINGED WARBLER. 
Ashy blue; forehead, crown and wing patch bright yellow ; throat 
and broad stripe through eye black ; a white streak above eye and 
one below black of cheek; belly mostly white; 9 duller, L. 5. 
W. 24. T. 24. E.U.S., N. to N. Mich.; a beautiful bird. (xpuaes, 
gold; mrepov, wing.) 
1 H. lawrencet (Herrick). Similar to H. chrysoptera ; cheeks and lower parts pure 
yellow ; wing bars white ; back, etc., olive-green. N.J., ete., rare. Either a hybrid 
of chrysoptera and pinus or else a yellow dichromatic phase of the former. The 
latter view is considered by Ridgway the most probable. (To Geo. N. Lawrence.) 
