298 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 



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



WiLSOKIA, 517. 



II, Bill scarcely twice as long as wide at base, formed much as in a Fly- 



catcher ; tail about as long as wings Seiophaga, 518. 



507. MNIOTILTA Vieillot. {jiviov, moss ; tiXXm, I pluck.) 



958. M. varia (L.). Black and White Creeper. Every- 

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

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

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



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



959. P. citrea (Boddaert). Prothonotary Warbler. 

 Golden-headed Warbleie. Front and lower parts brilliant 

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

 long. L. of W. 3. T. 2^. S. U. S., N. to Wabash VaUey; in 

 bushy swamps ; rather rare, a most beautiful bird. (Lat., lemon- 

 yellow.) 



509. HELINAIA Audubon. {l\os, swamp ; vala, to dwell.) 



960. H. swaiusoni 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. {iXfuvs, bug ; Bripaa), 



to hunt.) 



961. H. vermivorus (Gmelin). Worm- eating Swamp 

 Warbler. Olive green ; head buffy, with foiu- black stripes ; 

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

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



511. HBLMINTHOPHAGA Cabanis. (fX/iti-s, bug ; ^ayo's,) 

 (Helminthophila Ridgway.) 



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

 white or yellow. 

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



962. H. chrysopterai (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 duUer, L. 5. 

 W. 2f T.2i. E.U.S.,]Sr. to N.Mich.;' a beautiful bird, (xpvtros, 

 gold ; Ttrepov, wing.) 



1 H. lawrencei (Herriok). 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 cli/rysoptera and pinus or else a yellow dichromatic phase of the former. The 

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



