SYLVIA MARILANDICA. 



MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



[Plate XVIII. Fig. 4. Female.] 



THE male of this species having been represented in Plate VI, 

 fig. 1, accompanied by a particular detail of its manners, I have 

 little farther to add here relative to this bird. I found several 

 of them round Wilmington, North Carolina, in the month of 

 January, along the margin of the river, and by the Cypress 

 swamp, on the opposite side. The individual, from which the 

 figure in the plate was taken, was the actual nurse of the young 

 Cow-pen Bunting, which it is represented in the act of feed- 

 ing. 



It is five inches long, and seven in extent; the whole upper 

 parts green olive, something brownish on the neck, tips of the 

 wings and head; the lower parts yellow, brightest on the throat 

 and vent; legs flesh coloured. The chief difference between 

 this and the male in the markings of their plumage, is, that the 

 female is destitute of the black bar through the eyes, and the 

 bordering one of pale bluish white. 





