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PROTONOTARY WARBLER. 
kinds of seeds that grow luxuriantly in their native haunts. 
I also observed them eating the seeds or internal grains of 
ripe figs. They frequent gardens, building within a few 
paces of the house ; are particularly attached to orangeries ; 
and chant occasionally during the whole summer. Early in 
October they retire to more southern climates, being extremely 
susceptible of cold. 
PROTONOTARY WARBLER SYLVIA PROTONOTARIUS. 
Plate XXIV. Fig. 3. 
Arct. Zool. p. 410. — Buff. v. 316 Lath. ii. 494. Pl. enl. 704. — Peak's 
Museum, No. 7020. 
VERMIVORA ? PROTONOTARIUS. — Jardine. 
Sylvia (sub-genus Dacnis, Cuv. ) px-otonotarius, Bonap. Synop. p. 86 The Pro- 
tonotary Warbler, Aud. pl. 3, male and female ; Orn. Biog. i. p. 22. 
This is an inhabitant of the same country as the preceding 
species ; and also a passenger from the south ; with this 
difference, that the bird now before us seldom approaches the 
house or garden, but keeps among the retired, deep, and dark 
swampy woods, through which it flits nimbly in search of 
small caterpillars, uttering every now and then a few screaking 
notes, scarcely worthy of notice. They are abundant in the 
Mississippi and New Orleans territories, near the river, but 
are rarely found on the high ridges inland. 
From the peculiar form of its bill, being roundish and 
remarkably pointed, this bird might, with propriety, be classed 
as a sub-genera, or separate family, including several others, 
viz. the Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, the Gold-crowned 
Warbler, and Golden-winged Warbler, of Plate XV. and the 
Worm-eating Warbler of the present plate, and a few more. 
The bills of all these correspond nearly in form and pointedness, 
being generally longer, thicker at the base, and more round 
than those of the genus Sylvia , generally. The first mentioned 
species, in particular, greatly resembles this in its general 
