164 
SYLVIA PROTONOTAKIUSo 
probably, in sncb situations far to the southward ; for 
many of the southern summer birds that rarely visit 
Pennsylvania, are yet common to the swamps and pin© 
woods of New Jersey. Similarity of soil and situation, 
of plants and trees, and, consequently, of fruits, seeds, 
insects, &c. are, doubtless, their inducements. The 
summer red bird, great Carolina wren, pine-creeping 
warbler, and many others, are rarely seen in Pennsyl- 
vania, or to the northward, though they are common in 
many parts of West Jersey. 
SUBGENUS II JDACNIS, CUV. ( CASSICUS .) 
132 . SYLVIA PHOTON OTA HI US, LATHAM AND WILSON. 
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 
WILSON, PLATE XXIY. FIG. III. 
This is an inhabitant of Lower Louisiana, and a 
passenger from the south ,* it 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 pro- 
priety, be classed as a subgenera, or separate family, 
including several others, viz. the blue-winged yellow 
warbler, the gold-crowned warbler, the golden-winged 
warbler, the worm-eating warbler, and a few more. 
The bills of all these correspond nearty in form and 
pointedness, being generally longer, thicker at the base, 
and more round than those of the genus sylvia, gene- 
rally. The first mentioned species, in particular, greatly 
resembles this in its general appearance ; but the bill 
of the prothonotary is rather stouter, and the yellow 
much deeper, extending farther on the back ; its man- 
ners, and the country it inhabits, are also different. 
