MARYLAND YELLOW-THEOAT. 275 



by .56, .73 by .55. Their identification was perfectly satiBfactory, the female being se- 

 cured instantly after being driven from the nest." 



Genus GEOTHLYPIS. Cabanis. 



Bill rather depressed, distinctly notched, riotal bristles very short or ■wanting. Wings 

 short, rounded, about equal to the long graduated tail. Tarsi stout, as long as the head. 



GeOTHLYPIS TEICHA8 (L.) Cab. 



Mlaryland TtTello-w-tliroat. 



Sylvia iricTias, Kirtland, Ohio Geolog. Snrv., 1838, 163, 182. 



Trichas marylandica, Eead, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 423; Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 



1853, .395. 

 Geoihhjpis trichas, Baird, P. E. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 242. — Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 



for 1860, 363 ; Reprint, 1861, 5; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 564; 



Reprint, 1875, 4. — LanGdon, Cat, Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; Revised List, Jonrn. Cin. 



Soc. Nat Hist., i, 1879, .172 ; Reprint, 6. 



Tardus trichas, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 1766, 293. 

 Syloia trichas, Latham, Ind. Orn., ii, 1790, 519. 

 Triclms marylandica, Nuttall, Man., i, 1840, 454. 

 Oeoihlt/pis trichas, Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1856, 16. 



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 bufl'y-browuish below, some- 

 times almost entirely clear yellow. Length 4^-5 ; wing and tail l|-2-J^. 



Habitat, United States at large; south through Mexico and Central America. West 

 Indies. 



Abundant summer resident. Breeds. Arrives during the last week 

 in April and remains until the first of September. Frequents especially 

 the borders of streams, but is very common in upland thickets. It is 

 rarely seen in the gardens o( the city. The Maryland Yellow-throat is 

 terrestrial in its habits, comparatively seldom mounting to the higher 

 limbs of trees. It frequents thickets, weeds, and brush-piles, where its 

 active pert manners, as it hops in and out between logs and fence rails, 

 resemble those of the Wren. It is rather a voluble bird, the loud, em- 

 phatic whit-ti-tee-tee of the male, frequently repeated, is well known to all 

 observers. Besides this song it frequently utters a soft whit, whit, whit, 

 whit, especially on the wing. It has, however, a prolonged song, which 

 I have heard from the tops of trees, not loud, but varied and pleasant, 

 having considerable resemblance in its modulations to the song of the 

 Brown Thrush. 



