GILT-THROAT WARBLER, 



643 



Figuier Protonotaire. Buff, Hist. Nat, Ois, 5.3X6. 

 Figuier ^ ventre et tete jaunes. Biiff. PI. Enl. 704. f. 2. 

 La Fauvette Protonotaire. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer, Sept. 2. 27. pJ. 

 83. 



Protonotary Warbler. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 410. 310. — Lath. 

 Gen. Syn. 4. 494. 123. — Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 242. W.^-Wils. 

 Amer, Orn, 3. 72. pL xxiv.y. 3. 



This species, which has received the name of 

 Protonotaire^ is a native of Louisiana ; but it is not 

 common: it is about five inches in length: its 

 beak is dusky : the head, neck, breast, and belly, 

 are yellow : the vent is white : the back olive yel- 

 low: rump cinereous : quills dusky and cinereous : 

 tail with the bases of the inner webs of the three 

 outer feathers white; the fourth feather with a 

 white spot on the same part, and the rest of the 

 feathers dusky black : legs black. 



GILT-THROAT WARBLER. 



(Sylvia ferruginea.) 



Sy. supra cinerea, subtus albida, gula collogue Jerrugineis, 

 Warbler above ash-coloured, beneath whitish, with the throat 



and neck rust-coloured. 

 Sylvia ferruginea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 526. 64. 

 Motacilla ferruginea. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1 . 976. 

 Gilt-throat Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 45g. 63. 



According to Mr. Pennant, this bird inhabits 

 the banks of the Tunguska river in Russia: it 



