MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
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ften * ^®lil>erate and unsuspicious, as if the places it 
OT its own diminutiveness, w'ere its sufficient 
often visits the fields of growing rye, 
ffi, “h h.arley, &c. and no douht performs the part of a 
fiiat ** farmer, in ridding the stalks of vermin, 
H[i|| ***'ftht otherwise lay waste his fields. It. seldom 
Hhr the fai-m house, or city; but lives in obscu- 
ia p'*'* peace, amidst its favourite tliiokets. It arrives 
Apj-.^^'isylvauia about the middle, or last week, of 
begins to build its nest about the middle of 
fixed on the ground, among the dried 
® thicket of briers, arched 
fivg ’ a small hole left for entrance ; the eggs are 
*i'av '‘*®> with tonches of reddish brown. The young 
about the 22d of June; and a second 
season. Early in 
Vpl'ibcr they leave us, returning to the south. 
'IttSM** Pretty little species is four inches and three 
''“ck inches and a quarter in extent ; 
11),, ’ Wings, and tail, green olive, which also covers 
0 )) jrflwr part of the neck, but approaches to cinereous 
**’l>i,>v “•‘own ; the eyes are inserted in a band of black, 
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lia 
passes from the front, on both sides, reaching half 
laijj ^Wn the neck ; this is bounded above by another 
“"d V deepening into light blue; throat, breast, 
Slip *®f) brilliant yellow ; belly, a fainter tinge of the 
■■ '•«oloui ■ - 
flap inner vanes of the wings, dusky brown ; tail, 
Itrpj, dusky, edged with olive green ; bill, black, 
t|)e I,- slender, of the true motacilla form, though 
hipp®** itself was considered as a species of thrush by 
very properly removed to the genus 
Vyp by Graelin ; legs, flesh coloured ; iris of the 
*'^*’oucrT^ hazel. The female wants the black band 
9 n>,. ' fhe eye, has the bill brown, and the throat of 
r ; inside coverts of the wings, .also yellow ; 
paler yellow. 
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