MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



(Sylvia trichas, Lath. Audubon, pi. 23. Orn. Biog. i p. 121 5. ma- 

 njlandica, Wilson, i. p. 88. pi. G. fig. 1. [male.] and ii. p. 163. pi. 

 18. fig. 4. [female.] Phil. Museum, No. 7282.) 



Sp. Charact. — Yellow-olive; beneath yellow; front and wide 

 patch through the eye black, bounded above by whitish-grey ; 

 tail cuneiform. — Female vv^ithout black on the face, and beneath 

 dull yellow. 



Tins common and familiar species extends its summer 

 migrations from Florida to Nova Scotia, arriving in Penn- 

 sylvania towards the middle of April, and in this part of 

 New England about the first Vveek in May. They return 

 to the south in September ; a few stragglers of the young, 

 however, may be seen to the first week of October, and 

 though some may remain and winter in the Southern 

 States, it is more probable thai the main body retire at 

 this season into the interior of tropical America ; as they 

 were seen late in autumn, around Vera Cruz, by the nat- 

 uralist and traveller Mr. Bullock. Early in the month 

 of March, however, I heard this species singing in the 

 forests of West Florida. 

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