> A prothonotary is a clerk in certain courts of law.
>Apparently some of them wore
> bright yellow robes hence name for warbler.

Oops. Close, but not quite correct.

"State it in the form of a question"? Nope, wrong quiz show! The
problem in this case is substantive, not syntactic.

But barely.

> This bird became famous (as I recall) because when Alger Hiss
>was tried and convicted of treason, he claimed he
> was down in Virginia looking for Prothonotary Warbler when
>Whittaker Chambers
> claimed that he passed him some secret documents. Nixon,I think,
>was prosecutor.
> Many years ago, when i worked in Washington D.C., some local birders told me
> this story. Clark Blake, Dept.of geology,WWU.

98% correct.

Should've had people e-mail me answers so I could've kept score...
(one person did, already, and got #1 right)

-Don Baccus-