THE BIRD BOOK 



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Maryland Yellow- throats 

 Belding's Yellow-throat 



681. Maryland Yellow-throat. Geothlypis 

 trichas trichas. 



Range. — Eastern United States; this species has 

 recently been still further sub-divided so that this 

 form is supposed to be restricted to the south 

 Atlantic coast of the United States. 



The Maryland Yellow-throat is represented in 

 all parts of the United States by one of its forms. 

 They are ground loving birds, frequenting swamps 

 and thickets where they can be 

 located by their loud, unmistakable 

 song of "Witchery, witchery, 

 witch." They nest on or very near 

 the ground, making their nests of 

 grass, lined with hair; these are 

 either in hollows in the ground at 

 the foot of clumps of grass or 

 weeds, or attached to the weed stalks within a 

 few inches of the ground. They lay from three 

 to five eggs in May or June; these are white, 

 specked about the larger end with reddish brown 

 and umber, and with shell markings of stone gray. 

 Size .70 x .50. All the sub-species of this bird 

 have the same general habits of this one and their 

 eggs cannot be distinguished from examples of 

 the eastern form; the birds, too, owing to the 

 great differences in plumage between individuals 

 from the same place, cannot be distinguished with 

 any degree of satisfaction except by the ones who 

 "discovered" them. 



681a. Western Yellow-throat. Geothlypis 

 trichas occidentalis. 



Range.- — This variety, which is said to be bright- 

 er yellow below, is ascribed to the arid regions of 

 western United States; not on the Pacific coast. 



681b. Florida Yellow-throat. Geothlypis 

 trichas ignota. 



Range. — South Atlantic and Gulf coast to Texas. 



681c. Pacific Yellow-throat. Geothlypis 

 trichas arizela. 



Range. — Pacific coast from British Columbia southward. 

 681e. Salt Marsh Yellow-throat. Geoth- 

 lypis trichas sinuosa. 



Range. — Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay. 



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