PROTHONOTARY WARBLER 



2. Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert) 

 Prothonotary Warbler 



Length 122 mm. (4.80 in.); tail 47 mm. 

 (1.85 in.). 



Male. Head, neck (including throat) and re- 

 maining under parts rich orange yellow, paler 

 on abdomen and changing to white on under 

 tail coverts; back yellowish green; rump gray; 

 wings and tail gray; the inner webs of all but 

 the middle pair of tail feathers margined with 

 white excepting at the tip. No wing bars. 



Female. Similar to male but the yellow of 

 plumage paler. 



Young. Similar to but duller than adults. 



A rather uncommon migrant seen in the 

 shrubbery at Quarry Heights in January, 1924; 

 one at Patillo Point in April, 1926, and one on 

 the island of San Jose in Panama Bay in March, 

 1926. 



3. Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus) 

 Golden-winged Warbler 



Helminthophila chrysoptera RIDGWAY, Birds of N. and 

 M. Amer., II, p. 448, 1902. 



Length 108 mm. (4.20 in.); tail 46 mm. (1.80 

 in.). 



Male. Crown yellow bordered by a white 



line above the eye; back greenish gray; wings 



gray with conspicuous yellow patch; three outer 



tail-feathers with white areas near tip; a black 



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