182 . FAUNA OF XEW EXGLAXD. 



PASSERES. OSCINES. 



^Ds'IOTILTID.lE. 



Me. — Common migrant and local summer resident. (April 27) 

 May 3-Oct. 5. Eggs, May 25-.June 21. 



X. H. — Common migrant and less common summer resident at 

 lo'U'er altitudes. April 27-Sept. 29. Eggs, June 24. 



Yt. — Common migrant and summer resident. May .5-fall. 

 Eggs, June 20. 



jMass. — Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 18) AprU 28-Oct. 29 (Dec. 5). Eggs, May 17-Juiie 22. 



R. I. — Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 15) May 1-Oct. 7. Eggs, May 21, 23. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and less common summer resident. 

 (April 20) April 2.5-Oct. 10. Eggs, INIay 20-June 4. 



336. Protoxotaria citrea (Boddaert) Baird. 

 Prothonotary warbler; Golden swamp warbler. 



Chapman, Warblers Xo. Amer., 1907, p. 54, pi. 3, fig. 3-4. 



Motacilla ciirea Bodd., Tabl. d. planch, enlum. d'hist. nat., 

 1783, p. 44. Description in Buffon: "LoriSL\xiE." 



Bushy and tree-growTi swamps; nests generally in cavities of 

 stumps or dead trees. 



Me.— Accidental visitor: Calais, Oct. 30, 1862. 

 Vt. — Doubtfully recorded. 

 Mass. — Accidental visitor. !May 1-Sept. 15. 

 R. I. — Accidental visitor: Lonsdale, April 29, 1892, April 19, 

 1893; South Kingston, April 20 or 21, 1SS4. 



337. Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin) Bonaparte. 

 Worm-eating warbler. 



Motacilla mervimora [= vermivora] Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, 

 pt. 2, p. 951. "ix Pexsilvaxia." 



Helinaia vermivora Lath. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1841, 

 vol. 2, p. 86, pi. 105. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 3, fig. 6. 



