208 AYES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 



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



Sylvama, 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. (/moi/, moss ; t/XXw, I pluck.) 



058. M. varia (L.). Black and White Cheeper. Every- 

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

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

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



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



950. P. citrea (Boddaert). Prothoxotary Warbler. 

 Golden-headed Warbler. Front and lower parts brilliant 

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

 long. L. b\. 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. (eAoj, swamp ; vaia>. 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. (cXptw, bug ; 6rjpau>, 



to hunt.) 



• 9G1. H. vermivorua (Gmelin). Worm- eating Swamp 



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



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



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



511. HELMINTHOPHILA Eidgway. (eXpivg, bug; cj>i\6s, 



loving.) 



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

 white or yellow. 

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



962. H. chrysoptera x (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. 21. T. 2±. E. U. S., N. to N. Mich. ;" a beautiful bird, (xpvo-or, 

 gold ; TTTef)6i>, wing.) 



1 11. hvrrencei (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 chrysoptt ra and plnus or else a yellow dichromatic phase of the former. The 

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



