SPECIES 3. SYLPM MARILANDICA. 
MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
[Plate VI. — Fig. 1. — Male.'] 
Turdus Trichas, Linn. Syst. i, 293. — Edw. 237. — Yellow -breast- 
ed Warbler, Jlrct. Zool. ii, JVb. 283. Id. 284. — Le Figuier aux 
joues noires, Buff, v, 292. — La Fauvette a poitrine jaune de 
la Louisiane, Buff, v, 162. PI. Enl. 709, jrg. 2. — Lath. Syn. iv, 
433, 32 . — Peale’s Museum, JYo. 6902. 
This is one of the humble inhabitants of briars, brambles, al- 
der bushes, and such shrubbery as grow most luxuriantly in low 
watery situations, and might with propriety be denominated 
Humility, its business or ambition seldom leading it higher 
than the tops of the underwood. Insects and their larvae are its 
usual food. It dives into the deepest of the thicket, rambles 
among the roots, searches round the stems, examines both sides 
of the leaf, raising itself on its legs so as to peep into every 
crevice; amusing itself at times with a very simple, and not 
disagreeable, song or twitter, whitiiitee, ivhitititee, whitititee; 
pausing for half a minute or so, and then repeating its notes as 
before. It inhabits the whole United States from Maine to Flo- 
rida, and also Louisiana; and is particularly numerous in the 
low swampy thickets of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jer- 
sey. It is by no means shy; but seems deliberate and unsus- 
picious, as if the places it frequented, or its own diminutive- 
ness, were its sufficient security. It often visits the fields of grow- 
ing rye, wheat, barley, &c. and no doubt performs the part of 
a friend to the farmer, in ridding the stalks of vermin, that 
might otherwise lay waste his fields. It seldom approaches the 
farmhouse, or city; but lives in obscurity and peace amidst his 
favourite thickets. It arrives in Pennsylvania about the middle. 
