BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
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Plate XXXV. 
GEOTHLYPIS TEICHAS, (Linn.) Caban. 
Maryland Yellow-Throat. 
Beautiful, active and intelligent, this species claims superiority over 
most of its fellows, and is an object of interest and admiration to the 
enthusiastic student. It should be better known among the masses, as few 
birds are more sociable and confiding, and, on first appearance, none dis- 
play stronger attachment to man. It visits his fields and by-ways, in 
company with the Sparrows, and makes itself at home. But as the season 
advances, and the time of nesting draws near, such places are forsaken for 
quieter retreats. 
Throughout its extended range, which embraces the whole of the 
United States from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and ISTova Scotia, and 
from the Atlantic to the Western Ocean, it displays the same peculiar 
habits which we observe in Eastern Pennsylvania. It combines the attri- 
butes of the Titmice with those of the Flycatchers, moving in and out the 
foliage and branches of bushes with great dexterity, sometimes hanging 
from the latter with head downward, in its search for food, or, perched 
upon a small twig, seizing a jiassing insect with equal ease and skill. 
Whilst feeding it is not strictly arboreal. Individuals sometimes betake 
themselves to the ground, and glean among the dead leaves. 
Although occasionally found in cultivated grounds, where its jiresence 
is due to the noxious insects which there abound, yet a stronger preference 
is manifested for wild uncultivated fields, especially such as are overgrown 
with briers and low bushes. Low lands are more attractive than high, 
the tendency to humidity always insuring a greater supply of favorite 
