298 AVES: PASSERES. — XLVI. 
1. Bill fully twice as long as wide at base ; tail a little shorter than wings. 
Witsonta, 517, 
il. Bill scarcely twice as long as wide at base, formed much as in a Fly- 
catcher; tail about as long as wings. . . . . . SeToPHAGA, 518, 
507. MNIOTILTA Vicillot. (pviov, moss; ride, I pluck.) 
958. M. varia (L.). Buack 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), ProrHonotary Warster, 
GOLDEN-HEADED WARBLER. Front and lower parts brilliant 
yellow; back olivaceous ; wings and tail dusky; rump ashy ; bill 
long. L. 54. W. 3. T. 24. S.U.5S., N. to Wabash Valley, in 
bushy swamps; rather rare, a most beautiful bird. (Lat., lemon- 
yellow.) 
509. HELINAIA Audubon. (€Aos, swamp; vaic, to dwell.) 
960. H. swainsoni 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.%. T.2. S.C. to Texas, N. to 
S.Ind.; rare. (To Wm. Swainson.) 
510. HELMITHERUS Rafinesque. (éApuvs, bug; Onpdw, 
to hunt.) 
961. H. vermivorus (Gmelin). Worm-rating Swamp 
Wareg_er. Olive green; head buffy, with four black stripes; 
buffy below; @ similar. L. 5}. W. 3. T.2}. E.U.S., N. to 
L. Erie. (Lat., worm-eating.) 
511, HELMINTHOPHAGA Cahanis. (2Apus, bug; dayés,) 
(Helminthophila Ridgway.) 
u, Tail feathers with distinct white blotches; wings with bands or patches of 
white or yellow. 
6. Throat and ear-coverts black in g, dusky gray in 9. 
962. H. chrysoptera! (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 duller, L. 5. 
W. 24. T.24. E.U.S.,N. to N. Mich.; a beautiful bird. (ypvods, 
gold; mrepoy, wing.) 
1 H. lawrencet (Herrick). 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 chrysoptera 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.) 
