MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT 



May is, 18Q4 

 May 21, 1897 



THESE warblers keep in the dense 

 thickets and evergreens, usually low 

 down, so they are hard to see, but the 

 song, as constant as the red-eyed vireo's, 

 betrays their whereabouts. The song, well 

 described by "whee-che-tee," three and 

 sometimes four times repeated, is loud and 

 seems to me to have more of the red-eyed 

 vireo's quality than the warbler songs 

 usually have. It is a vigorous and marked 

 song. Yet I have heard the Connecticut 

 warbler sing exactly like it. 



May 14, 1906. This sang "wit-che-tee, 

 wit-che-tee, wit-che-tee, wee-chee-hall-or- 

 ee," a little variation after each thrice re- 

 peated wit-che-tee. 



May 20, 1907. Saw a female Mary- 

 land yellow-throat today. Such a charm- 

 ing little creature as she was, carrying her 

 tail like a little wren. She had quite a 

 tinge of reddish on her forehead, and the 

 yellow of the under tail coverts was plain- 

 ly visible. She stepped along in the grass 

 with such a dainty air — she seemed as 

 pretty and winning as the male. 



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