DENORCECID^E — THE WARBLERS — GEOTHLYriS. 95 



Geothlypis trichas, Linnaeus. 



THE MARYLAND YELLOW-THEOAT. 



Turdus trichas, IjitivxES, Syst. Nat. I. 176G, 29.3. — S/Zc/n (WcAo.s Latham, Ind. Orn. II. 



1790. — AuDi-BON, Orn. Biog. I. 1832, 120 ; V. 1838, 463 ; pis. 23 and 240. — Gcol/di/pis 



trichas, Cabanis, Mils. Hcin. 1850, 16. — Baihd, P. K. Kup. IX. Bird.-;, 170. — Cooper 



and SucKLEV, XIL iii. Zool. of W. T. 177. 

 Si/lfia Miirilamlira, Wilson, Am. Orn. I. 1808, 88; pi. vi. f. 1. — Tridias Mari/andica, 



BoN-APARTE, List, 1838. — AuDLBOx, SvB. 1839, 65. hi. Orn. Biog. II. 1841, 78; 



pi. 102. 

 Si/lfia Itoscoe, Audubon, Orn. Biog. I. 1832, 124 ; [il. 24. (Yonng male.) — Trichns Roscni;, 



NuTTALL, Man. I. 2d cd. 1840, 457. 

 Trichas Delajiildii, Audubon, Orn. Biog. V. 307. — Heer.maxn, V. K. Hep. X. vi. 40. 



Sp. Char. LTpper parts olive-trrecn, tinged with brown towards tlie middle of the 

 crown : diin, throat, and breast as far as the nud<llc of tlie lioilv, with the under tail 

 coverts, bright yellow. Belly dull whitish-buff. Sides of body strongly tinged with light 

 olive-brown; under coverts glossed with the same. A band of black on the forehead 

 (aliout 20 of an inch wide in the middle), passing backward so as to cover the 

 cheek and ear coverts, and extending a little above the e)-e ; this band bordered behind 



by a suffusion of hoary-ash, forming a distinct line above the eye, and widening behind 

 the ear coverts into a larger patch, with a yellow tinge. In winter dress, and in the 

 female, without the black mask, the forehead tinged with brown, the yellow of the throat 

 less extended, the eyelids whitish, and an indistinct superciliary line yellowish. Length 

 of male, 4 80 ; extent, 6.75 ; wing, 2.40 ; tail, 2 20 



Hah. North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 



A very common little Ijircl during summer, and some possihly -winter 

 within the State, though I saw none in tlie Colorado A'alley, in winter. 

 At San Diego I saw the first on the 17th of April, Init have before seen 

 them at the Columbia liiver earlier than that time ; and as they are rather 

 scarce at all times in the southern part of the State, I suspect that many 

 winter in the middle portions. 



They usually inhabit the densest thickets, and occasionally the reeds about 

 ponds and marshes, being constantly on the move after insects, and rarely 



