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ceed further north, but some appear to breed all along the line, as I have 

 found it about Washington early in August, and Mr. Scott saw it in 

 West Virginia during the summer. We find it in orchards when the 

 fruit trees are blossoming, and in all sorts of woodland, but particularly 

 in high open forests, where it will be observed fluttering and skipping 

 with great activity in the terminal foliage. I never found its nest, and the 

 only one I have examined was taken in Taunton, Massachusetts, early in 

 June. This was an irregular mass of flue, light cplored tree-moss, inex- 

 tricably matted, with a small deep cavity. The single egg in this nest 

 measured 0.70 by 0.57, and was white, flnely sprinkled at the large end 

 Avith reddish dots, having also a few others scattered elsewhere. 



The changes of plumage of this dainty little Warbler are great with 

 age, sex and season, and I once procured a curious partial albiuo, which 

 had the plumage irregularly blotched with pure white. 



1,} PEOTOXOTAEIA CITR^A, (Bodd.) Bd. 

 Protlionotary Warbler, 



MotaciUa citraa, BoDD., PI. Enl. 704, f. 2 (IT-o). 



Ifniotilta citrcva, Gi!ay, Geuera of Birds. 



Protonotaria oitraa, Bd., B. N. A. lc-.5>^, 239; Rev. 1864. 170,— "Wheat., Ohio AgiL. Rep. 

 1S60, Xo. 65.— GuNDL., J. f. O. 1861, 324 (Cuba, rare).— Couks ^t Peem., 

 Smiths. Rep. 1861, 406 (Washingtou, D. C, accidental).- ScL., Cat. leiH, 26.— 

 COUES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, l:^'6i, 21 (quotes "Calais, Jle., Boardman, y.ni: Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. is, 234"). — CoCES, Pr. Bost. >Soc. xii, 1808, 107 (South Carolina, summer, 

 rare). — Tukne., B. E. Pa. 1809 (straggler). — Lawk., Ann. Lyc. ix, 1868, 94 

 (Ccsta Rica); 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Scl. & Saev., P. Z. S. l>7O,"780 (Merida).— 

 Cones, Key, 1872, 93, fig. 36.— Sxo-i\', B. Ivans. 1872 (Neosho Falls, breeding). 



Sclmintliojihaga citrcea, C.\i!., J. f. O. 1801, 75 (Costa Rica). 



AlotaciUa protonotarius, G-M., Syst. Xat. i, 1788, 972. 



Sylvia protonotarius, Lath., Ind. Oiu. ii. 1790, .542. — Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. li. 1807, 27, 

 pi. 83,— WiLS.. Am, Orn. iii, 1811, 72. pi. 24, f. 3.— Bp., S?n. 18J-'. 80.— Xutt., 

 Jlan. i, 1832, 410.— Aijd., Orn. Biog. i, 1832. 22 ; v, 1839, 460; pi. 3. 



Sijiria {Dacnis) protonotarius, Bp., Jonrn. Phila. Acad, iv, 1825. 196. 



Vermivora protonotarius, Bp., List, 1838, 21.— ^yllODH., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 72 (Indian Ter- 

 ritory, breeding). — Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438 (Western Missouri). 



HcUnaia pro'onotarius, AuD., Syn. 1839, 67. — Arn., B. Am. ii, 1841, 89, pi. 106 (gives 

 Texas to Nova Scotia and Sasketchewan !). 



Edmitherns protonotarius, Bp,, Consp. Av. 1850, 314. 



Compsothlj/pis protonotarius. Cab., Mus. Heiu. i, 1850, 20. 



Hah. — Eastern United States, southerly. North occasionally to Maryland and Penn- 

 sylvania, and even Maine. Ohio. Illinois. Kentucky. Kansas. Missouri. Cuba. 

 Costa Rica. Panama. Merida. 



This species was noticed by neither Expedition ; it only reaches the 

 lowermost Missouri. According to Dr. Woodhonse, it breeds in the In- 

 dian Territory, and it has also been found breeding at Xeosho Falls, 

 Kansas, by Mr. B. ¥. Goss, and at the Kiowa Agency by Dr. Palmer. 

 The nest is built in the hole of a tree, oftenest a deserted Woodpeckers, 

 or even, as in the instance of a ne.st before me in the Smithsonian, in a 

 mill-frame. It is a slight and inartistic affair, flat and little hollowed, 

 measuring about four inches across outside by scarcely over an inch in 

 depth. It is built of various coarse fibrous strips, woven in with a mat- 

 ting of very flue mossy and downy substances, with some patches of 

 fur, apparently from a rabbit ; the lining is chiefly of fine rootlets. It 

 contained five eggs, w hite, thickly spotted all over, but most hea\ily at 

 the larger end, with reddish and slaty-brown or neutral tint. An egg 

 of another set from the Kiowa Agency is still more boldly blotched in 

 larger pattern. Two specimens, selected as extremes, measure, respect- 

 ively, 0.70 by 0.55 and 0.68 by 0.58, the latter being remarkably rounded, 

 while the others are all also quite noticeably obtuse at the smaller end. 

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