80 MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 



Maryland Yellow-throat, Nutt. Man., vol. i. 



Yellow-breasted Warbler, or Maryland Yellow-throat, Sylvia Trichas, Aud. 



Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 121, Adult; vol. v. p. 463. 

 Roscoe's Yellow-throat, Sylvia Roscoe, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 124. Young. 



Adult Male. 



Bill of ordinary length, tapering, slender, nearly straight, acute. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral, elliptical, half-closed by a membrane. Head and neck of 

 ordinary size, the latter short. Body rather short. Feet longish, slender; 

 tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered anteriorly with a few scutella, the 

 uppermost long; toes scutellate above, the inner free, the hind toe of mode- 

 rate size; claws slender, compressed, acute, arched. 



Plumage loose, blended. Wings very short, the first quill longest. Tail 

 rounded. 



Bill dark brown. Iris dark hazel. Feet flesh colour. A broad band of 

 black across the forehead, including the eyes, and terminating in a pointed 

 form half-way down the neck; behind which is a narrower band of very pale 

 blue; a slender white streak under the eye. Fore part of the neck bright 

 ochre-yellow, the rest of the under parts pale brownish-yellow, fading into 

 white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. Upper parts dull greyish- 

 olive, on the head tinged with red. Inner webs of the quills deep brown. 



Length 5^ inches, extent of wings 5^; bill along the ridge X2? along the 

 gap §-; tarsus \\. 



Adult Female. 



The female has the upper parts lighter, the under parts tinged with 

 reddish-brown, and wants the two bands on the head, which is of a pale 

 brownish-red colour. 



The Snow-drof Tree, Silver-bell Tree, or Wild Olive. 



Halesia tetraptera, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. ii. p. 849. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 448. 

 — Monadelphia Decandria, Linn. — Gcaiacan-e, Juss. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate; flowers with twelve stamina; the fruit 

 rhomboidal. It grows in shady woods, generally near rivers. 



