Plate III. Male and Female.
Bill nearly as long as the head; first quill longest; tail even. Male
with the head, neck, breast, and sides rich yellow, abdomen and lower
tail-coverts white; hind neck and fore part of back greenish-yellow,
rump, tail-coverts, smaller wing-coverts and margin of the quills and
tail-feathers light greyish-blue; the latter, except the middle,
having the greater part of their inner webs white.
_Male_, 5-1/2, 8-1/2.
From Texas eastward to Nova Scotia. In the interior to Kentucky.
Saskatchewan. Rather rare. Migratory.
Prothonotary Warbler, Sylvia Protonotarius, Wils. Amer. Orn.
v. iii. p. 72.
Sylvia Protonotarius, Bonap. Syn. p. 86.
Prothonotary Warbler, Sylvia Protonotarius, v. i. p. 410.
Prothonotary Warbler, Sylvia Protonotarius, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
i. p. 22; v. v. p. 460.