334 HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 



YELLOW THROAT. 



traveller Mr. Bullock. Early in the month of March, 

 however, I heard this species singing in the forests of 

 West Florida. They also exist in the territory of 

 Oregon, where Mr. Townsend obtained specimens. 

 We met with them on Lewis's River, of the Shoshonee 

 in the centre of the Rocky Mountain chain. 



The Maryland Yellow Throat, with cheerful devoted- 

 ness to the great object of his summer migration, the 

 attachments and cares of his species, passes his time 

 near some shady rill of water, amidst briers, brambles, 

 alders, and such other shrubbery as grow in low and 

 watery situations. Unambitious to be seen, he seldom 

 ascends above the tops of the underwood, where he 

 dwells busily employed in collecting the insects on 

 which he feeds. After these, like the wren, he darts 

 into the deepest thicket, and threads his devious way 

 through erery opening ; he searches around the stems, 

 examines beneath the leaves, and raising himself on 

 his peculiarly pale and slender legs, peeps into each 

 crevice in order to seize by surprise his tiny lurking 

 prey. 



