298 AVES: PASSERES. XLVI. 



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



SYLVANIA, 517. 



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



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



507. MNIOTILTA Vieillot. (pviov, moss ; nXXo>, 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. 2J. 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. 5J. W. 3. T. 2J. S. U. S., N. to Wabash Valley, in 

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

 yellow.) 



509. HELINAIA Audubon. (eXos, swamp ; vain, 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. (f\pivs, bug ; %>aw, 

 to hunt.) 



961. H. vermivorus (Gmelin). WORM -EATING SWAMP 

 WARBLER. Olive green ; head buffy, with four black stripes ; 

 buffy below ; 9 similar. L. 5J. W. 3. T. 2 J. E. U. S., N. to 

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



511. HELMINTHOFHILA Ridgway. (iX/zti/y, bug ; <tAos, 

 loving.) 



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



white or yellow. 

 b. Throat and ear-coverts black in <J , dusky gray in $ . 



962. H. chrysoptera 1 (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. 2J. T. 2i E. U. S., N. to N. Mich. ; a beautiful bird, (xpvo-os, 

 gold ; TrrepoV, wing.) 



1 H. lawrencei (Herrick). Similar to H. chrysoptera; cheeks and lower parts pure 

 yellow ; wing bars white ; back, etc., olive-green. N. J., etc., rare. Either a hybrid 

 of chrysoptera and pinus or else a yellow dichromatic phase of the former. The 

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



