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MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
which also covers the upper part of the neck, but approaches to cinere- 
ous on the crown ; the eyes are inserted in a band of black, which passes 
from the front, on both sides, reaching half way down the neck ; this is 
bounded above by another band of white deepening into light blue ; 
throat, breast, and vent brilliant yellow ; belly a fainter tinge of the 
same color ; inside coverts of the wings also yellow ; tips and inner 
vanes of the wings dusky brown ; tail cuneiform, dusky, edged with 
olive-green; bill black, straight, slender, of the true Motacilla form; 
though the bird itself was considered as a species of Thrush by Lin- 
naeus, but very properly removed to the genus Motacilla by Gmelin ; 
legs flesh colored ; iris of the eye dark hazel. The female wants the 
black band through the eye, has the bill brown, and the throat of a 
much paler yellow. This last, I have good reason to suspect, has been 
described by Europeans as a separate species ; and that from Louisiana, 
referred to in the synonymes, appears evidently the same as the former, 
the chief difference, according to Buflbn, being in its wedged tail, which 
is likewise the true form of our own species ; so that this error cor- 
rected will abridge the European nomenclature of two species. Many 
more examples of this kind will occur in the course of our descriptions. 
SYLVIA MARILANDICA. 
MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
[Plate XVIII. Fig. 4, Female ] 
The male of this species having been represented in Plate VI., fig. 1, 
accompanied by a particular detail of its manners, I have little farther 
to add here relative to this bird. I found several of them round Wil- 
mington, 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 Cowpen -Bunting, 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 through the eyes, and the bordering one of pale bluish white. 
