AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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A. O. U. No. 681e. 



SALT MARSH YELLOW^THROAT. 



(Geothlypls trichas sinuosa.) 

 RANGE AND DESCRIPTION, 



Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay. Smaller than the Pacific Yellow- 

 throat and darker. 



All the Yellow-throats migrate south of the United States in winter, 

 those of the east going to the Bahamas and the eastern coast of Mexico 

 and Central America while the western birds are supposed to migrate 

 to Lower California and the western coast of Mexico. 



Photo by J. B. Parker. 

 NEST AND KGGS OF MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



NEST AND EGGS. 



Yellow-throats nest on the ground or very near it usually in swampy 

 localities. Most of the nests that I have found have been in tangled 

 masses of weeds and have nearly all been built slightly above the ground 

 and usually with the bottom of the nest touching the earth. I have 

 found two that were built in tufts of swamp grass and completely arched 

 over. They are made of dried grasses and rootlets skillfully woven 



