pau it PALMER, Zhe Maryland Vellow-throat. 225 
1900 
new species.! J have, through the kindness of Mr. G. S. Miller, 
_Jr., to whom it belongs, examined the type. It is a midwinter 
immature ¢richas-brachidactyla, more nearly the latter, and probably 
from about New Jersey, Mr. Maynard’s familiarity with the large 
New England bird and non-familiarity with the small Maryland 
bird, causing him not unnaturally to describe the stranger as new. 
(See Bonhote, Ibis, 1899, p. 510.) 
I have accepted Audubon’s name for the southern bird. There 
can be no question as to the Florida bird occurring along the 
Gulf coast, and therefore his bird, readily distinguishable when 
collected, though afterwards placed with ¢richas, should be given 
proper rank. As the bird was taken in a cypress swamp it ren- 
ders this view more probable. The mistake of Dr. Hasbrouck 
occurred through assuming that a lowland resident Florida bird 
should also occur far up the Mississippi valley unchanged. 
Mr. Oberholser’s arize/a* is based on extremely slight charac- 
ters, but chiefly on ‘geographical reasoning.’ In the lowlands 
of the west occur smaller individuals than are to be found at 
higher altitudes close by. The birds of the Great Plains are 
intermediate in size between occidentalis and ¢trichas, as are also 
more northern individuals. It is altitude that fixes the 
greater size of the large specimens of occidentalis, a fact evi- 
denced by many other species. Wearing changes the coloration 
of the feathering in these birds to such a great extent that it 
seems unfortunate to base color values on summer specimens which 
acquired their plumage early in the previous autumn. The type 
of artzela is unfortunately an old and badly made skin. The 
greater yellowness, both above and below, of lowland and more 
southern California specimens is due to an approach toward influ- 
ences which have produced ée/dingi and melanops. 
1«<VITTLE BAHAMA YELLOW THROAT. Geothlypis restricta. — Above, dark 
olive green with space next to black abruptly ashy, mark restricted on the 
cheeks to about the same width as on the forehead, beneath, light yellow 
becoming lighter on abdomen and brownish on sides; wings shorter and 
rounder than in the common ¢richas ; dimensions, wing, 2.40; bill, 23 ; tarsus, 
25. Occurs in Bahamas.” — Zhe American Exchange and Mart, Feb. 5, 1887, 
69. 
? Auk, 1899, 257. 
