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nest, hissed and stuck to the nest until almost touched by the hand. The 

 male has a habit of sitting on a dead or naked branch high over an open 

 space where he sings by the half hour stopping occasionally to preen his 

 feathers. The Mourning warbler also nests in an entirely different 

 situation near Branchpoint. June 4, 1903, a nest was found in a dry 

 bush lot clearing along a large gully at an elevation of 250 feet above 

 the valley. It was placed in a small beech bush 18 inches from the 

 ground among wild blackberry bushes, beech stumps and sprouts. It 

 contained 2 eggs and no more were laid. They were taken June 7. 

 June 2 1 a second nest was found in the sprouts around a beech stump. 

 It contained 4 eggs and was 2| feet from the ground. As it was only 

 .3 rods from the place where the first nest was found and as both nest and 

 eggs strongly resembled the first nest and eggs, it was undoubtedly a 

 second set from the same bird. Both nests were larger and more bulky 

 than the Potter swamp nests. One measures: diameter, outside, 6 inches; 

 inside, 2\ inches; depth outside, 3^ inches; inside, 2| inches. Both 

 nests were of dead weeds and grass, thickly lined with black horse hair. 

 "A nest found June 13, 1909, was a little farther up this same hill and 

 was placed on the ground in a clump of oxeye daisies close by the highway 

 through some woods and it was less than 2 feet from the beaten track. 

 It contained 5 eggs." 



Geothlypis trichas trichas (Linnaeus) 

 Maryland Yellow-throat 



Plate 98 



Turdus trichas Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 1766. 1:293 

 Trichas marilandica DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. So, fig. 123 

 Geothlypis trichas trichas A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 322. 



No. 681 



geothlypis, Gr., yij, earth, and Xuxf?, a proper name, meaning unknown, word coined 

 by Cabanis in 1847; trichas, Gr., word for thrush or some similar bird, used by Aristotle 



Description. Adult male: Upper parts olive green; throat and breast 

 bright yellow changing to dingy white on the abdomen; frontlet and sides 

 of the face, the mask, jet black bordered above by bluish gray. Female: 



