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The name comes from the bird’s bright gold feathers, which resembles the equally brilliant yellow robes worn by papal clerks in the Roman Catholic church, called prothonotaries.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2018

Prothonotā′riat, the college constituted by the twelve apostolical prothonotaries in Rome.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

In this strange museum lord chancellors, councillors of state, learned benchers, barons of the exchequer, masters of the rolls, treasurers, readers, prothonotaries, poets, and authors jostle each other in dusty confusion.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The attorney-general, registers, and prothonotaries are appointed for five years, removable in like manner.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Young, Andrew W.

These records, obtained in the offices of the respective prothonotaries, produced thirty-seven cases in Northumberland and twenty-two in Lycoming County dealing with former Fair Play settlers.

From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by Wolf, George D.