SPECIES 3. SYLFM 



MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 

 [Plate VI. Fig. 1. Male.] 



Turdus Trichas, LINN. Syst. i, 293. EDW. 237. Yellow -breast- 

 ed Warbler, Jlrct. Zool. n, JVo. 283. Id. 284. Le Figuier aux 

 joues noires, BUFF, v, 292. La Fauvette a poitrine jaune de 

 la Louisiane, BUFF, v, 162. PI. Enl 709, fig. 2. LATH. Syn. iv, 

 433, 32. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 6902. 



THIS is one of the humble inhabitants of briars, brambles, al- 

 der bushes, and such shrubbery as grow most luxuriantly in low 

 watery situations, and might with propriety be denominated 

 Humility, its business or ambition seldom leading it higher 

 than the tops of the underwood. Insects and their larvae are its 

 usual food. It dives into the deepest of the thicket, rambles 

 among the roots, searches round the stems, examines both sides 

 of the leaf, raising itself on its legs so as to peep into every 

 crevice; amusing itself at times with a very simple, and not 

 disagreeable, song or twitter, whitititee, whitititee, whitititee; 

 pausing for half a minute or so, and then repeating its notes as 

 before. It inhabits the whole United States from Maine to Flo- 

 rida, and also Louisiana; and is particularly numerous in the 

 low swampy thickets of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jer- 

 sey. It is by no means shy; but seems deliberate and unsus- 

 picious, as if the places it frequented, or its own diminutive- 

 ness, were its sufficient security. It often visits the fields of grow- 

 ing rye, wheat, barley, &c. and no doubt performs the part of 

 a friend to the farmer, in ridding the stalks of vermin, that 

 might otherwise lay waste his fields. It seldom approaches the 

 farmhouse, or city; but lives in obscurity and peace amidst his 

 favourite thickets. It arrives in Pennsylvania about the middle. 





