WARBLERS 



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Tuwiiscnd died, his collection came into the pos- 

 session of John James Authibon. who i)rocceded 

 to give this Warbler the name of Macgillivray, a 

 Scotch naturalist of his acquaintance, who never 

 saw America, much less the bird — alive, at any 

 rate. l\i this Mr. Dawson objects. 



r)r. Coues wrote that he did not remenilier ever 

 to have seen this Warbler " more than a few 

 feet from the ground, nor elsewhere than in 

 thick brush," and another observer notes its 

 ])eculiar [practice of spending much time actually 

 on the ground, where it scratches industriously 

 among the leaves and searches under dead logs 



for its insect food. Townsend remarked its 

 sprightly warble, which it delivers with its bead 

 and bill raised almost vertically, its little throat 

 swelling with the effort, and Air. Dawson reduces 

 the .syllables of the song to the words, ,s7;, •,-/', 

 shcrf', slwrp, shear, slirnr, slirrf'. The same ob- 

 server noted that when the fem.-ile is flnsluil 

 from her nest ( which is not easy to find ), instead 

 of raising an outcry, or attempting to dccov the 

 intruder awa\-, she usu.ilh' stays near and feeds 

 among the branches with a great show of in- 

 dustry and |ireoccui)ation. 



Drawing by R I Brabhcr 



MACGILLIVRAY'o WARBLER (J nat. size) 

 Most frequently observed in thickets or on the ground 



MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT 

 Geothlypis trichas trichas { Liiincrii.<:) 



A. (1. r. Xuml.ir i.,Si See Color I'late g.S 



Other Names. — Olive-colored Yellow-throated 

 Wren; Yellow-throat; Wciterii Yellow-throat; North- 

 ern \'ellow-throat ; Northern Maryland Yellow-throat; 

 Hlack-niasked Groun<l Warbler; Grouncl Warbler. 



General Description, — Length, 4'4 inches. Upper 

 parts, olive-green; under parts, yellow and huffy. Itill, 

 decidedly shorter than head, tapering gradually to the 

 tip: wings, short and much rounded; tail, about the 

 same length as wing and much rounded. 

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Color. — .A.i)ui-T M.\le; Forehead (sometimes includ- 

 iiu; front of crown) and sides of head, uniform Mack, 

 formint! a eonsficuous " mask," this margined poste- 

 riorly by a band of light ash-gray of variable width, 

 sometimes narrow and abruptly defined behind, some- 

 times covering whole of crown; rest of upper parts, 

 plain dull grayish olive-green, back of head and hinder 

 part of crown tinged with brown ; chin, throat, and 

 chest (sometimes breast also), lemon-yellow; under 



