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MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. 
MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT SYLVIA 
MARILANDICA. — Plate VI. Fig. 1. 
Turdus trichas, Linn. Syst. i. 293 Edw. 237. — Yellow-breasted Warbler, Arct. 
Zool. ii. No. 283. Id. 284. — Le Figuier aux joues moires, De Buff. v. 292. — La 
Fauvette a poitrine jaune de la Louisiane, Buff. v. 162. PL enl . 709, fig. 2. — 
Lath. Syn. iv. 433, 32. — Beale's Museum , No. 6902. 
TRICHUS PERSONATUS. — Swaixsok. * 
Trichas personatus, Swain. Zool. Journ. No. 10. p. 167. — The Yellow-breasted 
Warbler, or Maryland Yellow- throat, Aud. i. pi. 23. p. 121. 
This is one of the humble inhabitants of briers, brambles, 
alder bushes, and such shrubbery as grow most luxuriantly 
in low, watery situations ; and might with propriety be 
* Mr Swainson has formed from this species his genus Trichas , and bestowed 
upon it the new and appropriate name of personatus , or masked ; Marilandica 
of Brisson and Wilson could scarcely be retained, Trichas of Linnaeus having 
the priority. The latter is now converted into a generic term ; and as the 
species does not seem entirely confined to Maryland, another and more appro- 
priate than either will perhaps make less confusion than the attempts to 
restore some old one. Mr Swainson makes the following remarks upon the 
genus : — “ This form is intimately connected with Synalaxis, and two or three 
other groups peculiar to Africa and Australia. Feebleness of flight and strength 
of foot, separate these birds from the typical genera ; while the strength and 
curvature of the hind claw, forbid us to associate them with the true 
Motacillce .” 
The female is figured on Plate XVIII. of this volume, where it is men- 
tioned as one of the birds whose nest the Cow Bunting selects to deposit her 
eggs in. “ The nest,” according to Mr Audubon, “ is placed on the ground, 
and partly sunk in it : it is now and then covered over in the form of an oven, 
from which circumstance, children name this warbler the Oven-bird. It is. 
composed externally of withered leaves and grass, and is lined with hair. The 
eggs are from four to six, of a white colour, spreckled with light brown, and 
are deposited about the middle of May. Sometimes two broods are reared 
in a season. I have never observed the egg of the Cow Bunting in the nests 
of the second brood.” 
The male birds do not attain their full plumage until the second spring. — E d. 
