SYLVIA MARTLANDICA. 
MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
[Plate XVIIL — 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 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 Bunting, which it is represented in the act of feed- 
ing. 
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 coloured. The chief difierence 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. 
