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are but slightly developed; the tail is long, compared with the wings, and rounded ; 
the legs are stout. The general colour is olivaceous above, and yellow beneath, the 
tail being without spots. 
A. Gula flava. 
a. Pileus summus in mare albus. 
1. Geothlypis trichas.” 
Turdus trichas, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 2931. 
Geothlypis trichas, Baird, U.S. Bound. Surv. ii. pt. 2, Birds, p. 10°; Rev. Am. B.i. p. 220%; Sel. 
& Salv. Ibis, 1859, p.10*; P. Z.S. 1870. p. 836°; Scl. P. Z.S. 1859, pp. 3638 °, 3737; Cab. 
J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 84°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 200°; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. 
p. 269 ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 547"; v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, 
p- 2938"; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 140%; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 146 et seq."; Baird, Brew. & 
Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 297%; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 69"; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 809”. 
Sylvia marylandica, Wils. Am. Orn. i. p. 88, t. 6. f. 1%. 
Trichas marylandica, Gosse, B. Jam. p. 148"; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 292”; Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. 
N. H. vii. p. 110”. 
Trichas personatus, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 433 . 
Supra olivacea, alis concoloribus, cauda paulo letiore, fascia pileum summum et cervicis latera occupante griseo- 
alba, fronte, regione oculari et genis nigerrimis ; subtus gutture toto et crisso flavis, ventre ochracescente ; 
rostri maxilla corylina, mandibula et pedibus carneis. Long. tota 5-0, ale 2-2, caudee 2:1, rostri a rictu 
0-55, tarsi 0°8. (Descr. maris ex Duefias, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Q mari similis, capite et cervicis lateribus inornatis dorso concoloribus. (Descr. femine ex Choctum, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
flab. Nort America, United States generally °, Texas 2.—Mexico”, Mazatlan, Tepic 
(Grayson '°), Guanajuato (Dugés"), Orizaba (Sumichrast™), Jalapa (de Oca®), 
valley of Mexico (le Strange), near Vera Cruz (Bullock 22), Totontepec and Oaxaca 
(Boucard"), Merida, Yucatan (Schott®), Progreso, Yucatan (Gaumer); GUATEMALA, 
Chiapam, Retalhuleu, Escuintla, Duefias*, San Gerénimo, Coban, Choctum (0. 8. 
& FD. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro (G. MM Whitely*®); Costa Rica*, San José (v. 
Frantzius *); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé).—AnTILLES, Bahamas ”!, Cuba *, 
Jamaica’, &e. 
Throughout Mexico and Guatemala the Maryland Warbler is one of the commonest 
species of its family during the winter months, being found in numbers from the Rio 
Grande valley and Mazatlan in the north to the confines of the republic of Honduras. 
In the northern parts of Mexico, according to Grayson ”, it remains to breed ; he observes 
that it is “acommon species from October until the latter part of June. They migrate 
into the high central plains to breed. I have seen it in the month of July in the 
vicinity of Tepic.” Southwards of this it seems to be much more rarely met with, as 
we have on record only a single instance of its occurrence in Costa Rica”, and we 
