298 AVES : PASSERES. — XLVI. 



/. Bill fully twice as long as wide at base ; tail a little shorter than wings. 



WlLSONlA, 517. 

 II. Bill scarcely twice as long as wide at base, formed much as in a Fly- 

 catcher; tail about as long as wings Setuphaga, 518. 



507. MNIOTILTA Vii'illot. {^viov, moss ; riXXw, I pluck.) 



958. M. varia (L.). Black and White Creeper. Every- 

 where black and white, streaked ; crown with a broad white stripe ; 

 wing bars white ; 9 similar, grayer. L. 5. W. 2|. T. 2^. E. N. 

 Am., not rare ; a beautitul warbler, with the habits of a nut-hatch. 



508. PROTONOTARIA Baird. (Lat., first notary.) 



959. P. citrea (Boddaert). Prothonotary Warbler. 

 GoLi>EN-UKADKD Wakhler. Front and lower parts brilliant 

 yellow; back olivaceous ; wings and tail dusky; rump ashy ; bill 

 long. L. 5^. W. 3. T. 2^. S. U. S., N. to Wabash Valley, in 

 bushy swamps; rather rare, a most beautiful bird. (Lat., lemon- 

 yellow.) 



509. HELINAIA Audubon. («Xos, swamp; valo). to dwell.) 



9G0. H. s'wainsoni Audubon. Chietly 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 wliite below. L. 6. W. 2. T. 2. S. C. to Texas, N. to 

 S. Ind.; rare. (To Wm. Swainson.) 



510. HELMITHERUS Kafinesque. (tXfiivs, bug ; Orjpdu, 



to hunt.) 

 9G1. H. vermivorua ((Juielin). Worm - eating Swamp 

 W.\RHi.ER. Olive green ; head buffy, with four black stripes ; 

 buffy below ; 9 similar. I.. :>^. W. 3. T. 2^. E. U. S., N. to 

 L. Erie. (Lat., worm-eating.) 



511. HELMINTHOPHAGA Cabanis. (e'X/ii./r, Img ; 0ayo's,) 

 (Jlebnitit/infihiln Ridgway.) 

 a. Tail feathers with distinct white blotches; wings with bands or patches of 

 white or yellow. 

 b. Throat and ear-coverts black in cf, dusky gray in 9. 



902. H. chrysoptera 1 (L.). GoLi)r.x-wi.N(;ED Warbler. 

 Ashy blue ; forelieail, crown and wing jiatch bright yellow ; throat 

 and broad stripe through eye black ; a white streak above eye and 

 one below black of chock ; belly mostly white ; 9 duller, L. 5. 

 W. 2^. T. 2i E. U. S., N. to N." Mich. ;' a beautiful bird. (xP^'^of' 

 gold ; TTTfpuv, wing.) 



* H. lawrencei (Herrick). Similar to H. chrysoplera ; cheeks and lower parts pure 

 yellow ; wing bars white ; back, etc., ohve-green. N. J., etc., rare. Either a hyt)riil 

 of chrysojUrra and pinus or else a yt'llow iliiliioinatic phase of the former. The 

 latter view is considered by Ridgway the most probable. (To Geo. N. Lawrence ) 



