184 



xNOUTil AMKHICAN liUiDH. 



Frotonotaria citrea, ISaikd. 



PROTHONOTABT WABBLER ; GOLDEN 8WAMF WARBI^B. 



Motiiiilhi cUriM, lidDi). Talil. 17M! (I'l. I'lil. 704, lig. 2). I'roluiwlnriu eitno, liAiiiii, Hirils 

 N. Ai.i. IS")!*, 1':!!); \W\. 17;t. Sii.atki!, Ciital. 1861, 26, no. 166. — GuMii,. Cab. 

 .lour. IMil, ;1'_'4 (Cul>a ; vi'iy laicK Ilihiniitliniilinijn i-ilini, Vah. .lour. liS61, S.'i ^('o.sta 

 Hiia). Miiliuilhi prtildiiti/iin'ii.i, (i.M. Siiln'n prul. L.^iii. — Vir.ii.i,. Ois. Aui. Scjit. 

 II, jil. Ixxxiii. -Wii.siiN, Am. Oru. Ill, [pI. xiv. lij,'. 2. — Arn. Oin. Hiog. II, ]•!. 

 iii. r<riitifiin( pmt . lioN". Uitimiiti prut. Al'u. Ilcliuit/uriis prut. Bon. Caiiip- 

 so/li/jipis jiral. ('.\li. .lour. Mutiicillii lutrivitllis, O.mki.. I, 1788, 984. Sijlvia mir. 

 li.Mll., elf. ^llasl■ll ou Ja- (I'niiiil Fiijiiitr i/ii ('diiiKtii, IJltls.soN, Oi.s. Ill, 1760, .^08, pi. 

 xxvi, i\n. I). KiiuaW. Siili-inilii tiiii: Nrri'. .Man. I, 1840, 431. 



Si'. Cu.wt. Itill vciv larj.'f; a.<i hwix iis the licail, 'load anil lu'i'k all I'oinid, with tliu 

 (.Milirc uiiilcr |i.iils, iiiclmliiiLr the liliia', liiii yellow, oxcopting the nniil region and under 

 tiiil-eovert.<, wliieli are white. Hack dark olive-ofreen, with a. tinge of yellow ; rnnip, 

 upper tail-eovert.s wings, and tail above, liliiish a.-;ii-eolor. luner margin of (juill.-i and the 

 tail-t'ealher.-: (exeept the innermost) white; the outer webs and lips like the back. Length, 

 5.4(1; wing. 'J.!»i: tail. 2.2."). 



II.Mi. Kasiern Province of I'nited Stales (Southern region); Cuba, Costa Rica, and 

 Panama 1!. 1!. .Not iceorded t'rom .Mexico nr (iuateuiala. Aeeidental in New Brunswick 

 ((i. A. lio.Mtn.MAN in letter). Yuealau (IjAWUknck). 



Tills i.s (iiie of tlii> very liiiiKlsomcst of Aim'i'ioiiii Warbli'i's, tlie yellow of llio 

 ht>a(l mill lower parts liciiio; of a imrciicss and nicllowiicss scarcely apiiroacliod 

 by any other species. In a lii.^lily colored male from Soutlierii Illinois (No. 

 1(1,111, .Mississippi Hottoiii, Union Co.. Ajiril '2o ; Ii. Konnicoti) it is stained 

 in sjKits, particularly over the eyes and on the neck, with a beautiful cad- 

 luiuin-iiran.ne. 



Hauit.s. Ill reoanl to the habits of ihi.s beautiful and intcrestin<j; Warbler 



wi! receive but little lioht from the ob- 

 .servatioiisof olderornitholojrical writens. 

 Its o;('oo;rapliical distribution i.s some- 

 what eriatic and irreo;ular. It does not 

 appear to be distributed over a very 

 wide ratline. It occurs as a migrant in 

 the West Indies and in Central Ameri- 

 ca. In the I'liited States it is found 

 in the Southern re<iion, but farther west 

 the ranji;e widens, and in the Missiosijjpi 

 Valley it i.s found as far north as Kansas, 

 Southern and Central Illinois, and Missouri. Accidental specimens have been 

 oblaiiieci as far to the northeast as Calais, though unknown to all the Kastern 

 States as far south as .Siaitliern Viroinia. It was met with by none of the gov- 

 ernment parties except by I>r. Woodhouse, who found it abundant in Texas. 

 Mr. Audulioii ob.Herved them, near Louisville, Keiitutiky, frctpienting creeks 

 an<l lagoons overshadowed by large trees. These weri! their favorite places 



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