298 AVES : PASSERES. — XLVI. 



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



WiLSONIA, 517. - 



II. 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 Vieillot. (/ivioc, moss ; tiXXo), I pluck.) 



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

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

 wing bars white ; 9 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 Bau-d. (Lat., first notary.) 



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

 Golden-headed Warbler. Front and lower parts brilliant 

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

 long. L. 5^. W. 3. T. 2\. S. U. S.,N. to Wabash Valley, in 

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

 yellow.) 



509. HELINAIA Audubon. (eXos, swamp; valm, to dwell.) 



960. H. s'wainsoni 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. HELMITHBRUS Rafinesque. (eX/iiro, bug; Bripda, 

 to hunt.) 



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

 Warbler. Olive green ; head buffy, with four black stripes ; 

 buffy below ; 9 similar. L. 5^. W. 3. T. 2^. E. U. S., N. to 

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



511. HELMINTHOPHAGA Cabanis. (iX/xivs, bug ; (payos,) 

 (Hetminthophila Eidgway.) 

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

 white or yellow, 

 ft. Throat and ear-coverts black in cf, dusky gray in $. 



962. H. chrysoptera 1 (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. 2^. T. 2i E. U. S., N. to N. Mich. ;' a beautiful bird. (xpv(r6s, 

 gold ; TTTepov, wing.) 



1 H. lawrencei (Herrick). Similar to H. clirysiyptera ; cheeks and lower parts pure 

 yellow ; wing bars white ; back, etc., olive-green. N. J,, etc., rare. Either a hybrid 

 of clwysopttra and jAnus or else a yellow dichromatic phase of the former. The 

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



