BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 445 



IFrotonotaria] cilrea Sclater and Salvin, Nodq. Av. Neotr., 1873, 8. — Cory, List 



Birds W. I., 1885, 7 (Cuba). 

 Plrotonotaria] direct Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 98 (n. e. Illinois, rare 



summer visit. ) . — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 291. — Ridqway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 484. 

 [Protonotaria] citnea ConEs, Key, 1872, 93. 



Protonotaria cUrsea Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 59; Birds N. W., 1874, 47. 

 Plrotonotaria] ciincii Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 42 (near Chicago, 2 



specs., summer). 

 Helminthophaga dtrea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix. Mar., 1861, 85 (Costa Rica). 

 [Moiadtla] protonotarius Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 972 (based on Figuier Protono- 



laire Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., v, 316; Proihonotary Warbler Latham, Gen. 



Synop., ii, pt.2, 494). 

 [Sylvia'] protonotarius Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 542. 

 Sylvia protonotarius yimhhoT, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, 27, pi. 83. — Wilson, Am. 



Orn., iii, 1811, 72, pi. 24, fig. 3. — Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 



1824, 195; Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, 1826, 86.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 



i, 1832, 410.— Audubon, Orn.Biog., i, 1831, 22; v, 1839, 460. 

 Sylvia protonotaria Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xi, 1817, 211, pi. D22, fig. 2. 

 Sylvicola protonotaria 'Rich AKDSoa, Rep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836 (1837), 171. 

 Yermivora protonotarius Jardine, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., i, 1832, 362, pi. 24, fig. 



3. — BoN.\PAHTE, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 21. — Woodhouse, Sitgreaves' 



Exped. Zuiii and Col., 1853, 72 (Indian Territory; Texas). — Hoy, Ann. Rep. 



Smithson. Inst, for 1864 (1865), 438 (Missouri). 

 Helinaia protonotarius AviiuBOJn, Synopsis, 1839, 67; Birds Am., oct. ed.,ii, 1841, 



89, pi. 106. 

 Dacnis protonotaria Audubon, Birds Am., fol. ed.,pl. 3. 

 {Helmitheros] protonotarius 3onAPAnTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 314. 

 Hlelminthophaga] protonotarius Cab Aais, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20, footnote. 

 [Motadlla] auricollis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 984 (based on Le Grand Figuier 



de Canada Brisson, Orn., iii, 508, pi. 26, fig. 1, etc.). 

 [Sylvia] auricollis Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 536. 

 Sylvia auricoUisYiEihhOT, Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 447. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 



and Can., i, 1832, 380. 

 Sylvicola auricollis Nuttall, Man. Orn. TJ. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 431. 

 MlniotiUa] auricollis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 



Genus -HELMINTHOPHILA Ridgway. 



Helminthophaga^ (not of Bechstein, 1802) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 20. 



(Type, Motadlla chrysoptera Linnseus. ) 

 Helminthophila Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan. 1882, 53. (Type, Sylvia 

 ruhricapilla Wilson.) 

 Small MniotiltidEe (wing less than 63.5 mm.) with the bill much 

 shorter than head, narrowlj' wedge-shaped, verj acute at tip, without 

 subterminal tomial notch; rictal bristles obsolete; difference in length 

 between wing and tail nearly if not quite equal to one-fourth the length 

 of the former. 



Bill much shorter than head, narrowly wedge-shaped, with tip very 

 acute; culmen straight or with terminal portion very faintly decurved; 

 maxillary tomium without subterminal notch. Nostril longitudinally 



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