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222 PALMER, The Maryland YVellow-throat. Tialy 
Geothlypis trichas melanops. Mexican YELLOW-THROAT. 
Geothlypis melanops BatrRp, Review Am. Birds, Smithsonian Miss. 
Colls. (181), 1865, 222. Type locality, Jalapa, Mexico. 
Adult %, in summer: Large; above yellow olivaceous; beneath uni- 
form rich yellow, ochraceous on the flanks; facial. black with a broad 
whitish crown band, posteriorly margined with yellow; tail as long as 
or longer than the wing; wing, 62 mm.; tail, 61.5 mm.; exposed culmen, 
12 mm.; tarsus, 22 mm. (type). 
Adult 2 : Less strongly colored than the g; lores lessashy white; face 
and underbody pale yellow, whiter on the abdomen; sides of neck and 
breast pale reddish brown. 
Distribution tn Summer. 
Florida and the seaward edge of the Coastal Plain from Chesapeake 
Bay into Texas; inhabits the cypress, cane and palmetto a: 
Floridian . - ° 3 : 5 3 » roscoe 
The Coastal Plain Bid Piedmont Plateau regions ron southern New 
England to Chesapeake Bay, thence including the bases of the moun- 
tains into Georgia and the Mississippi Valley from near sea level to 
about 1000 feet. Carolinian ; : : : : =| léxechase 
New England, northward and Leeward into Newfoundland, and near 
Hudson Bay. ‘Transition and Canadian : : “ brachidactyla. 
Western United States from about the 97th meridian to the Pacific, and 
from northern Mexico into British America. Generally between 2000 
and 6000 feet. Sonoran and transition . : . occidentalis. 
Eastern Mexico, probably below the eastern ade of the plateau. 
melanops. 
Distribution in Winter. 
Practically resident, except at its more northern habitat . - voscoe. 
Southern Atlantic slope birds, wintering largely if not entirely in the 
southern States; the more northern and the intermediates migrating to 
the Bahamas and the West Indies; the Mississippi Valley birds into 
Mexico and Central America. : SM MELCORGS- 
Along the Atlantic coast eheawert the eas to the West Indies, 
and perhaps further : “ : ; : . brachidactyla. 
California and southern tier of States into Central America and Lower 
California . : : ; 3 : : : . occidentalis. 
Into southern Mexie : : : : - . . ; melanops. 
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