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Genus PROTONOTARIA Baikd. 



Protonotaria Batrd, Eep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 239. Type, 

 by monotypy, Motacilla citrea Boddaebt. 



Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert). Prothonotary Warbler. [637.] 

 MotacUla citrea Boddaert, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 44. (Louisiana.) 



Range. — Eastern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds in Austroriparian Zone and along river bottoms of Carolinian 

 Zone from northeastern Nebraska, southeastern Minnesota, southern 

 Wisconsin, southern Michigan, Ohio, central Delaware, and eastern 

 Maiyland south to eastern Texas and northern Florida; winters 

 from Nicaragua to Colombia and casually in Venezuela and southern 

 Mexico; apparently crosses the Gulf in migration; accidental in the 

 West Indies and not found in Mexico north of Campeche; casual 

 north to New York, New England, Ontario, and New Brunswick, 

 and west to Arizona. 



Genus HELINAIA Audubon. 



Helinaia Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 66. Type, by subs, desig., Sylvia 

 swainsonii Audubon (Coues, 1878). 



Helinaia swainsoni (Audubon). Swainson's Warbler. [638.] 



Sylvia swainsonii Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), II, 1834, pi. 198. (Ed- 

 isto River, near Charleston, S. C.) 



Range. — Southeastern United States. Breeds in Austroriparian 

 Zone from southeastern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, 

 and southeastern Virginia (Warwick County) south to Louisiana and 

 northern Florida; winters in Jamaica; migrates through Cuba and 

 the Bahamas; casual in Nebraska, Texas, and Vera Cruz. 



Genus HELMITHEROS Rafinesque. 



Helmitheros Rafinesque, Journ. de Physique, LXXXVIII, 1819, 418. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Helmitheros migratorius Rafinesque = MotacUla 

 vermivora Gmelin. 



