MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 379 



to the black feathers of the throat, resembling the effect produced 

 by wearing crape. 



Mr. Thompson found this species quite common in Manitoba, but 

 difficult to collect, owing to its habit of keeping back in the under- 

 brush. 



GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS (LiNN.). 

 287. Maryland Yellow-throat. (681) 



Male in spring: Olive green, rather grayer anteriorly; forehead and a 

 broad band through the eye to the neck, pure black, bordered above with hoary 

 ash; chin, throat, breast, under tail coverts and edge of wing, rich yellow, 

 fading into whitish on the belly ; wings and tail, unmarked, glossed with olive ; 

 bill, black; feet, flesh colored. Female in spring : Without the definite black 

 and ash of the head; the crown, generally brownish, the yellow pale and 

 restricted. The young in general resemble the female, at any rate lacking the 

 head markings of the male, but are sometimes buffy-brownish below, sometimes 

 almost entirely clear yellow. Length, 4f-5; wing and tail, 1J-2J. 



HAB. Eastern United States, mainly east of the Alleghanies, north to 

 Ontario and Nova Scotia, breeding from Georgia northward. In winter, South 

 Atlantic and Gulf States, and the West Indies. 



Nest, on the ground, composed of leaves and grass, and lined with fine 

 withered grass, sometimes partly roofed over. 



Eggs, four to six, white, thickly sprinkled with reddish-brown, chiefly at 

 the larger end. 



The Maryland Yellow-throat is widely but somewhat irregularly 

 distributed. I have heard its familiar notes on the banks of the 

 St. Lawrence, near Quebec ; by the marshy ponds between Gait 

 and Paris I have found it breeding abundantly; but near Hamilton, 

 where there are places which to us appear equally suitable for its 

 summer residence, it is only observed as a casual migrant in spring 

 and fall. It is a very lively little bird, and makes its summer 

 haunts ring with its loud, clear whit-ti-tee, often repeated, which 

 once heard is not soon forgotten by any one who has an ear for 

 bird music. It arrives during the first week in May, and disappears 

 about the end of August. 



It is very common in Manitoba, but beyond that to the north, I 

 have not heard of its having being observed. 



