254: MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
Nests discovered by Dr. Kennerly about Puget Sound were all built on the ground, almost 
exclusively consisting of beautifully delicate mosses, peculiar to that country. They are 
lined with finer mosses, and a few slender stems and fibres. Mr. Ridgway found these 
Warblers breeding in great numbers at Parley’s Park, Utah, among the Wahsatch 
Mountains. ‘This species,” he writes, “inhabits exclusively the brush-wood along the 
streams of the mountain cafions and ravines. Among the weeds in such localities 
numerous nests were found. In no case were they on the ground, though they were 
always near it; being fixed between upright stalks of herbs, occasionally, perhaps, in a 
brier, from about one to two feet from the ground. The note of the parent bird, when 
a nest was disturbed, was a strong chip, much like that of the Lazuli, or Indigo 
Bunting. The eggs, usually four in number, are ‘pinkish-white, marbled and spotted 
with purple, lilac, reddish-brown, and dark brown, approaching black.’”’ 
Nuttall, who had a fine ear for the woodland melodies, speaks of this Warbler’s 
song as a “loud snapping clink,’’ which is uttered when the bird is skulking off, shy, 
and jealous; he likens another note to the hurried, rattling sound of the Ovenbird; 
another male “called out at intervals vish vishtyu, changing to vit vit vit vityu;” 
another still “had a call of visht visht, visht e visht t’shew.’”’ Another writer speaks 
of the song as “almost unrivaled in sweetness by that of any other of the forest 
songsters.”’ 
NAMES: Macci.iivray’s WaRBLER, Macgillivray’s Ground Warbler, Tolmie’s Ground Warbler. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Sylvia macgillivrayi Aud. (1839). Trichas macgillivrayi Aud. (1889). GEOTHLY- 
PIS MACGILLIVRAYI Bro. (1858). Geothlypis philadelphia var. macgillivrayi Allen (1872). 
DESCRIPTION: ‘Sexes, nearly alike. Upper parts, including exposed surfaces of the wings and tail, clear 
olive-green; below, bright yellow, shaded with olive on the sides. Head and neck all around, and 
throat and fore-breast, clear ashy; the eyelids, white, and the loral region usually dusky; the throat 
with blackish centres to the feathers, veiled by their gray skirting. 
“Length, 5.25 inches; wing and tail each about 2.25 inches.” (Coues.) 
MARYLAND YELLOW~-TRROAT. 
Geothlypis trichas CABANIS. 
PuaTeE XIV. Fic. 1, 
“A woodland walk, 
A quest of river-grapes, « Mocking Thrush, 
A wild rose, a rock-loving columbine, 
Salve my worst wounds.” EMERSON, 
)T IS June, the most beautiful month of the year in our Northern States, the real 
@ spring month, the month of flowers and bird-song, of balmy air and fragrance. 
We forget the cold winter and the very changeable climate of April and May. The 
woodland walks are fringed with delicate ferns, wake-robins, and other pretty flowers. 
In the lowlands near water life is most abundant. The rank vegetation nurtures hosts 
