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MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 

 SYLVIA MAJRILAJVDICA, 

 [Plate XVIIL— Fig. 4.— Female.'] 



THE male of this species having been represented in the pre- 

 ceding volume,^ accompanied by a particular detail of its manners, 

 I have little farther tp add here relative to this bird. I found se- 

 veral of them round Wilmington, North Carolina, in the month of 

 January, along the margin of the river, and by the Cypress swamp, 

 on the opposite side. The individual from which the figure in the 

 plate was taken, was the actual nurse of the young Cow-pen Bun- 

 ting, which it is represented in the act of feeding. 



It is five inches long, and seven in extent ; the whole upper 

 parts green olive, something brownish on the neck, tips of the wings 

 and head; the lower parts yellow, brightest on the throat and vent; 

 legs flesh colored. The chief difference between this and the male 

 in the markings of their plumage, is, that the female is destitute of 

 the black bar thro the eyes, and the bordering one of pale bluish 

 white. 



* See Amer. Orn. vol. I, plate vi, fig. 1. 



