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SINGING BIKD.S ~ OSCLNES. 



Genus GEOTHLYPIS, (AiiAXis. 



Trichas, Swainson, Zuul. Jour. III. July, 1827, 1G7. (Not of Gloger, March, 1827, equal 



to t'riniyer, Tcniin.) 

 Geotlili/pis, f.'AiiANis, Witjfjiuimu's Arcliiv 1847, I. 31G, 349. 



Gen. Char. Bill svlvicoline, rather tk-pres.sed, and distinctly notched ; rictal bristles 

 very short or wanting. Wings short, roinided, scarcely longer than the tail ; the first 





G. trichas. 



quill shorter than the fourth. Tail long ; much rounded or graduated. Legs stout ; 

 tarsi elongated, as long as the head. Olive-green above, belly yellow. Tail leathers 

 immaculate. Legs yellow. 



This genus is represented iu Calit'ornia l>y two species, G. trichas and 

 Macgillivruiji, and a tliird and a niucli rarer one, G. PhUuddphkt, occurring 

 in the Eastern States, ■where (/. trivltax is also abundant. Many otliers, how- 

 ever, belong to ^liddle and South America, where they seem to be abun- 

 dant, and to have much the same habits as do the species of tlie Ignited 

 States, living in tliickets or among the grass, and nesting on or -^-ery near 

 the ground. 



