120 BIRDS OF MAINE. 



290. (681). Geothlypis ti'iclias (Z/»7i.). Maryland Yellow- 

 throat. 



A common summer resident, frequenting grassy, bush-inter- 

 spersed meadows, low, bushy clearings and similar localities. Its 

 song resembles the syllables "peachity, peachity, peachity," while 

 the alarm note is a harsh "chit." It prefers to skip about in the 

 low bushes, keeping fairly well concealed from observation, but 

 always making its presence known by uttering its alarm note when 

 its precincts are intruded upon. 



County Records. — Audroscoo'o;in, "common summer resideuf" (John- 

 son) ; Aroostook, "Fort Fairfield, common" (Batchelder, Bull. Xutt. 

 Oru. Club, Vol. 7, p. 110) ; Cumberland, "common summer resident" 

 (Mead) ; Franklin, "common summer resident" (Swain) ; Hancock, 

 "common summer resident, noted on Deer Isle'" (Knight) ; Kennebec, 

 "quite common summer resident" (Powers) ; Knox, "summer" (Rack- 

 liflf") ; Oxford, "breeds commonly" (Nash) ; Penobscot, "common sum- 

 mer resident" (Knight) ; Piscataquis, "common summer resident" 

 (Homer) ; Sagadahoc, "common summer resident" (Spinney) ; Somerset, 

 "common summer resident" (Morrell) ; Waldo, (Spratt) ; Washington ; 

 "abundant summer resident" (Boardman) ; York, "common summer 

 resident" (Adams). 



Genus ICTERIA Vieillot. 



291. (683). Icteria virens (Linn.). Yellow-breasted Chat. 



An accidental visitor from the south of which only three speci- 

 mens have come to ni}'^ knowledge. Two of these are Cumberland 

 County specimens, one a male, being taken at North Bridgton, 

 June 6th, 1880, by Mr. J. C. Mead, while the other is from Port- 

 land, being recorded by Brown. (Cf. Brown, The Auk, Vol. 11, 

 p. 331). A specimen taken at Elliot, York County, is given in 

 Smith's List of the Birds of Maine. 



Genus SYLVANIA Nuttall. 



292. (685). Sylvauia pusilla (TF^Y.s.). Wilson's AVarbler. 



A rare summer resident of the Canadian fauna, rare as a migrant 

 elsewhere in the state. 



County Records. — Androscoggin, "sometimes I'ear their young in this 

 county" (Walter's "Birds of Androscoggin County, p. 9) ; Aroostook, 

 "breeds at Fort Fairfield" (Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Oru. Cluli, Vol. 7, p. 

 110) ; Cumberland, "uncommon transient" (Brown's Cat. Birds of Port- 

 land, p. 9), "I have record of its occurrence in Westbrook, September 



