288 EEPOET OF A^EW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Green record two taken September 24th, 1885/ and Mr. Holmes, one 

 seen at Summit, May 29th, 1904. 



Dr. C. C. Abbott saw one. May 20th, 1906, at Trenton. Mr. Scott 

 took one, September 22d, 1880, at Princeton,- and Mr. G. S. Morris 

 obtained one on the Pensauken Creek near its mouth. May 30th, 

 1897.=^ 



681 Geothlypis trichas (Linnaeus). 



Maryland Yellow-throat. 



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PLATE 74. 



Adult male. — Length, 4.50-5.50. Wing, 2. Above, grayish olive-green, brown- 

 ish on the back of the head ; below, bright yellow from the chin to the middle 

 of the breast ; rest of under parts, pale buff to dull white ; under tail-coverts, 

 yellow ; a jet black mask covering the sides of the face and forehead, bordered 

 behind with grayish. In autumn, browner above and on the flanks, the black 

 mask veiled with grayish edgings. 



Adult femaZe.— Similar, but lacks at all seasons the black mask. 



Young in first summer. — Olive-brown above, olive-green on tail ; tawny wood 

 brown on the throat, chest and flanks ; pale yellowish on the abdomen. 



Young in first autumn. — Male similar to autumnal adult, but with only a 

 trace of the black mask on the sides of the face below the eye ; female similar 

 to adult, but buff instead of yellow below. 



Nest on the ground or in a tussock in low ground, quite large and made of 

 leaves, bark, grass, etc. ; eggs, three to five, white, speckled with brown and 

 rusty brown, .70 x .50. 



Abundant summer resident; arrives April 21st (April 28th), de- 

 parts October 12th. 



The Maryland Yellow-throat is universally distributed from one 

 end of the State to the other, as much at home in the pine barrens 

 as in the mountains, and from every swamp and low thicket comes 

 his familiar song, "wichity, wichity, wichity, wichity." 



The bird is Wren-like in its actions and in its inquisitiveness, 

 bobbing in and out among the bushes, intent upon investigating any 

 intruder who approaches its domain. 



A single Yellow-throat was seen by Mr. Ehoads, at Haddonfield, on 

 February 5th, 1890,* but its occurrence in winter is purely accidental. 



' O. and O., 1886, p. 92. 



- Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 76. 



=> Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C, III., p. 4. 



' Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 140. 



