Auk 
290 Bancs, Notes on Bahama Birds. ie 
series of eight examples of G. restrzcta the wing measures from 53 mm: 
to 55 mm.) 
36. Geothlypis rostrata Bryant. GREATER YELLOW-THROAT.— Eleven 
specimens, ten males, one female, taken from February 6 to June 27, 
1897, at Nassuu. 
It has always been supposed that the large Yellow-throats of the Baha- 
mas were representative island forms, — G. rostrata on New Providence, 
G. coryi on Eleuthera, G. ¢anneri on Abaco, and a form as yet undescribed 
on Andros.! It is therefore a great surprise to find that two spectes breed 
on New Providence, and one other, G. coryz, has been taken there once, 
though it was probably only a straggler. It is to Mr. Maynard’s great 
acuteness as a collector that this unlooked for discovery is due. Mr. 
Maynard has taken these skulking, retiring birds in larger numbers than 
any one else who has visited the Bahamas. While collecting them in 
1897 at Nassau he noticed two different songs, and making notes on the 
birds he shot, soon found that two distinct species were breeding equally 
commonly there. The smaller, duller colored bird, G. rostrata, sings 
like a Maryland Yellow-throat. The larger, more highly colored species, 
sings like G. coryz,—a song so different that Mr. Maynard says, no one 
on first hearing it would take it for the performance of a Yellow-throat. 
37. Geothlypis maynardi,? sp. nov. MAyYNARD’s YELLOW-THROAT. — 
Thirteen adult males from Nassau, New Providence, taken from Febru- 
ary 8 to June 24, 1897. 
Type, from Nassau, New Providence, No. 3363, g adult, collection of 
E. A. and O. Bangs, collected May 11, 1897, by C. J. Maynard. 
General characters.—Most nearly like G. cory, differing from that spe- 
cies in having the black mask bordered behind by ash-gray, becoming 
paler and more yellowish behind the eye, the occiput dark ash, and the 
upper parts dull olive green more nearly as in G. rostrata ; can be told 
from G. rostrata, with which it occurs, by larger size and much brighter 
colors, the whole underparts being bright yellow. In G. rostrata the 
throat and breast are pale yellow, the belly whitish and the flanks and 
sides dull brownish green. Song wholly different from that of G. ros- 
trata. 
Color.—Adult § (2 unknown) with black mask about as in the allied 
forms, bordered behind by ash-gray which becomes yellowish ash from 
behind the eye downwards; occiput dark ash, many of the feathers bor- 
dered by olivaceous; rest of upper parts, including the edges of the wing 
feathers and the tail, dull olive-green; whole under parts bright gamboge 
yellow, the sides slightly more olivaceous. 
Remarks.—Dr. Ridgway kindly compared our series of Yellow-throats 
for me with the material at Washington. This was a necessity, as the 
‘See Allen’s note after Geothlypis rostrata of Northrop’s list, Auk, January, 
1891, pp. 68-69. 
* Named in honor of C. J. Maynard. 
