74 GEOTHLTPIS TEICHAS, MARYLAND YELLOW-THEOAT. 



Mississippi Valley beyond the Missouri, where Dr. Hoy found it in great 

 abundance in the western part of the State. He says: "They live and 

 nest in the underbrush, the male occasionally bopping upon a low branch 

 of a tree to pour forth his whittishee, whittishee, repeated two or three 

 times, then disappearing in the tangled brash. This song is so preciselj' 

 like that of the Yellow-throat, that it requires a practiced ear to distin- 

 guish the one from the other." 



The nest, says Audubon, "is small, beautifully constructed, and 

 usually attached to several stems of rank weeds. The outer parts are 

 formed of the bark of stalks of the same weeds, in a withered state, 

 mixed with a finer kind, and some cottony substances. It is beautifully 

 lined with the cottony or silky substance that falls from the cotton-wood 

 tree. The eggs are from four to six, of a pure white color, finely sprink- 

 led with bright red dots." Two nests before me, taken early in June, in 

 Georgia and Kansas, respectively, differ somewhat from such a one as 

 Audubon describes. One of them appears to have lost an outer part it 

 probably had ; the other, complete, is a large bulky structure, five or 

 six iuches across, composed externally of a mass of dried leaves and 

 small sticks; the lining is of fine rootlets. The eggs are as Audubon 

 says — the fine dotting occurs sparsely all over the surface, but most 

 thickly at and around the larger end, and besides the reddish sprinkling 

 there are other dots of neutral tint. Dimensions 0.G8 by 0.5.3. 



^' GEOTHLTPIS TEICHAS, (Linn.) Cab. 



Maryland Tellow-tlii'oat. 



TiirAm ti-ichas, Lixx., Syst. Nat. i, 1763, 2D3.— Gjr., op. cit. 13tU ed. 1783, 811. 



Syhia trichas, Lath., Ind. Orn. ii, 1790, 519. — Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 28, pis. 

 28, 29.— XCTT., Man. i, 1832, 401.— AuD., Oru. Biog. i, 1832, 120; v, 1839, 463, 

 pis. 23, 240.— D'OrisIG., Sagra.s Cuba. 1840, 67. 



Geo'thlypis trichas, Cab., Mus. Heiu. ISM, 16.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 241 ; Rev. 1835, 220.— 

 Coop. & Suck., X. H. Wash. Ter. 1830, 177.— Gundl., J. f. O. 1851, 32o.— .SCL., 

 Cat. A. B. 1882, 27.— Hayd., Eep. 1862, 160.— March. Pr. Phila. Acad. 1863, 

 2<)3.— Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. Inst. Wool, iv, 1864, 115.— JoxKS, Nat. Berm. 29.— 

 CouES, Pr. Phila. Acad. 1866, 69 (Arizona).— L.4.wii., Ann. Lye. ix. 1^68, 94 

 (Coste Rica) ; 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Scl., P. Z. S. 1870, 838 (Honduras).— Coop., 

 B. Cal. 1870, 95.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Ter. 1870, 463.— Merr., ibid. 1872, 

 674.— ALLEiST, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 175.— Allen, op. cit. ii, 1871, 259.— Aikex, 

 Pr. Bost. Soc. 1872, 197 (Black Hills).- CouES, Key, 1872, 107, fig. 47 ; also of 

 all Eastern United States writers. 



Ficedula trichas and marilandica of Brissox'. 



Sylvia manlandica, WiLS., Am. Orn. i, 1808, 88, pi. 6, f. 1, and ii, 163, pi. 18, f. 4.— Bp., 

 Svn. 1828, 85. 



Trichas marilandica, Bp., List, 1838 ; Consp. i, 1850, 310.— AuD., Syn. 1-^39, 65 ; B. Am. 

 ii, 1841, 78, pi. 102.— WooDH., Sitgr. Eep. 1853, 71.— Hoy, Smiths. Rep. 1864, 438. 



Segiilus mystaceiis, Steph., Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii, 1626, 232. 



Trichas personattis, Sw., Zool. .lourn. iii, 1827, 16. 



Trichas brachydactylus, Sw., An. in Men. 1838, 295. 



Sylvia roscoe. Add., Orn. Biog. i, 1832, 124, pi. 24. 



Trichas roccoe, Nutt., Man. i, 2d ed. 1840, 457. 



Trichas deUifitldii, Heeum., P. E. E. Eep. s, 1859, 40 (whether of Aulmbou 1) 



Hah. — The whole of the Uuited States, and South through Mexico and most of the West 

 Indies, to Guatemala. Breeds Ihroughont its United States range, andwinters spar- 

 ingly on our southern horder. Eesident individuals of Mexico constitute var. mclanops 

 (G. melanops, Bd., Rev. 1865, 222). Those resident in the Bahamas form an insular race 

 rostratns {G. rostratus, Bryajs'T, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1866, 67): (See EiDGW., Am. Journ. Sci. 

 1872, 458.) 



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