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* HONEY CREEPER, C. flaveola, similar in cut to C. bakamensis (From Brehm.) 



of this species is white or creamy-white, speckled and spotted with chestnut and hazel, 

 generally in the form of a wreath around the larger end, although the rest of the 

 surface is not unspotted. A typical set measures .65x.51, .63x.51, .60x.50, .65x.49, 

 .64x.50; the average is .65x.55 inches. 



637. PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. Protonotaria citrea (Bodd.) Geog. 

 Dist. Mississippi Valley and Gulf States north regularly as far as Iowa, Illinois, 

 Indiana, etc., casually to Wisconsin; rare or casual on the Atlantic Coast, north of 

 Georgia, south in winter to Cuba, Central America and Northern South America. 



The vicinity of willow swamps, the borders of ponds and streams in the bottom 

 lands of the Mississippi Valley and Gulf States is the summer home of the Golden 

 Swamp Warbler. Messrs. Keyes and Williams record it as a summer resident of 

 Iowa and not uncommon, summer resident of Kansas; common in the eastern por- 

 tion. It is abundant in portions of Indian Territory and Texas. Prof. Evermann 

 notes the Prothonotary Warbler as a rare summer resident of Carroll county, Indiana. 

 It is a summer resident in Western Ohio, where it has been observed breeding. Mr. 

 William fcrewster found this species to be one of the most abundant and character- 

 istic birds of Southern Illinois and Southwestern Indiana. In his charming ac- 

 count* of its life-history he describes its song as resembling the note of the Solitary 

 Sandpiper, and its alarm note that of the Water Thrush. The typical nesting site, 

 he states, \vas the deserted hole of the Downy v Woodpecker or Carolina Chickadee. 

 The height varied from two to fifteen feet, though the usual elevation was about 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, III, pp. 153-162. 



