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probably, in such situations far to tbe southward ; 
many of the southern summer birds that rarely ’'I' 
Pennsylvania, are j'et common to the swamps and 
ivoods of New Jersey. Similarity of soil and .situati»'|' 
of plants and trees, and, consequently, of fruits, 
insects, &c. nre, doubtless, their iiidncoments. 
summer red bird, great Carolina wren, pine-creepw 
warbler, and many others, are rarely seen in PeiinS.'. 
vania, or to the northward, though they are common 
many parts of West Jersey. 
SITBGENUS II. — DJCXISj CUT, (CASSICCS.) 
132. srzrjA rjtOToxoTjuiuSj lathasi and -wii.soK* 
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIV. PIG. III. 
Tins is an iiiluibitant of Lovi'er Louisiana, 
passenger from the south; it seldom a]>proaches 
,a» 
tb^ 
liOu.se or garden, hut keeps among the retired, dcu' 
mid dark swamjiy woods, through which it flits niin'’'j 
in search of small caterpillars, uttering every non' 1* , 
then a few screaking lUites, scarcely worthy of noin'*'. 
They are almndant in the Mississippi and New' OrPn"' 
territories, near the river, but are rarely found ou **' 
hig-h ridges inland. . 
From the ])eculiar form of its hill, being ronodjV 
and remarkably pointed, this bird might, with 
priety, he classed as a subgeuera, or sejiarate fnninp 
including several others, viz. tlie bine-winged yc**‘’j 
M'arhler, the gold-eroivncd narhier, the goldeii-wi",?^ 
warbler, the worm-eating warliler, and a few 
The bills of all these correspond nearly in form 
pomtedness, being generally longer, thicker at the 
ji-ocinuica ... iis general appearance; hut 
of the profhonotary is rather stouter, and the yw‘" 
much deeper, extending farther on the back ; its n’*' 
ners, and the country it inhabits, are also dili'erciit. 
