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to the black feathers of the throat, reseml)Hii,ii; tlie effect pi'oduced 

 by wearing crape. 



Mr. Thompson found this species quite common in Manitoba, but 

 ditficult to collect, owing to its habit of keeping back in the under- 

 brush. 



(lEOTHLYPLS TRTCHAS (Linn.). 

 -'87. Maryland Yellow-throat. (<)81) 



J/^ri/t- ill ipriiiij : — OUve green, rather grayer anteriorly ; forehead ainl a 

 broad hand through the eye to the neck, pure black, bordered above with hoary 

 ash ; chin, throat, breast, under tail coverts and edge of wing, rich yellow, 

 fading into whitish on the belly; wings and tail, unmarked, glossed with olive; 

 bill, black; feet, flesh colored. Female in s^jrin;/ .—Without the definite black 

 and ash of 'the head ; the crown, generally brownish, the yellow pale and 

 restricted. The i/oini;/ in general resemble the female, at any i-ate lacking the 

 head markings of the male, but are sometimes ])ufi'y-l>rownish Ijelow, sometimes 

 ahnost entirely clear yellow. Length, 4j-o ; wing and tail, l^-^s- 



Hab. — Eastern United States, mainly east of the AUeghanies, north to 

 Ontario and No\-a Scotia, breeding from Georgia noithward. In wiiitei', Soutli 

 Atlantic and (4ulf States, and the West Indies. 



Nest, on the ground, composed of leaves and grass, and lined \\itii tine 

 withered grass, sometimes partly i-oofed over. 



Eggs, four to six, white, tliickly sprinkled with reddisli-l)r<)wn, chiefly at 

 the larger end. 



The Maryland Yellow-throat is widely but somewhat irregularly 

 distributed. I have heard its familiar notes on the banks of the 

 St. Lawrence, near Quebec ; by the marshy ponds between (ialt 

 and Paris I have found it breeding abundantly; but near Hamilton, 

 where there are places which to us appear etjually suitable for its 

 summer residence, it is only observed as a casual migrant in spring 

 and fall. It is a very lively little bird, and makes its summer 

 haunts ring with its loud, clear ivhit-ti-tfc, often repeated, which 

 once heard is not soon foi'gotten by any one who has an ear for 

 bird music. It arrives during the first week in May, and disappears 

 about the end of August. 



It is very common in Manitoba, but beyond that to the north, I 

 have not heard of its having being observed. 



