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GENUS PROTONOTARIA Barrp. 
Protonotaria Batrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 239. Type, 
by monotypy, Motacilla citrea BopDAERT. 
Protonotdria citrea (BoppAERT). Prothonotary Warbler. [637.] 
Motacilla citrea Bopparrt, Table Pl. Enl., 1783, 44. (Louisiana.) 
RanGceE.— Eastern North America and northern South America. 
Breeds in Austroriparian Zone and along river bottoms of Carolinian 
Zone from northeastern Nebraska, southeastern Minnesota, southern 
Wisconsin, southern Michigan, Ohio, central Delaware, and eastern 
Maryland south to eastern Texas and northern Florida; winters 
from Nicaragua to Colombia and casually in Venezuela and southern 
Mexico; apparently crosses the Gulf in migration; accidental in the 
West Indies and not found in Mexico north of Campeche; casual 
north to New York, New England, Ontario, and New Brunswick, 
and west to Arizona. 
GENUS HELINAIA AubuUBON. 
Helinaia AupuBon, Synopsis, 1839, 66. Type, by subs. desig., Sylvia 
swainsonit AUDUBON (Coues, 1878). 
Helinaia swainsoni (AUDUBON). Swainson’s Warbler. [638.] 
Sylvia swainsonu AupuBoNn, Birds Amer. (folio), IT, 1834, pl. 198. (Ed- 
isto River, near Charleston, 8. C.) 
RaNnGE.— Southeastern United States. Breeds in Austroriparian 
Zone from southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, 
and southeastern Virginia (Warwick County) south to Louisiana and 
northern Florida; winters in Jamaica; migrates through Cuba and 
the Bahamas; casual in Nebraska, Texas, and Vera Cruz. 
GENUS HELMITHEROS RarinEsQueE. 
Helmitheros RaFINESQuE, Journ. de Physique, LX XXVIII, 1819, 418. 
Type, by orig. desig., Helmitheros migratorius RAFINESQUE = Motacilla 
vermivora GMELIN. 
