172 
1871. 
May 30- 
Ju.iiG 10. 
1872. 
Juno 3~ 
14. - 
1874. 
Aug. 11. 
“ 13 . 
Geothlypis philadolphia. 
Maine (Lake Umbagog ). 
Rather common. Haunting v;ood-edges and small 
clearings and grown up bushes. On the Stage road be¬ 
tween Upton and Poplar Tavern YtG heard no less than se¬ 
ven males singing in the course of a single morning, 
they almost invariably sing from the protecting branch of 
some dead stub. Tv/-enty or thirty feet above the ground. 
The ordinary note is precisely like that of the Mary¬ 
land Yellow-throat. In addition they have a shrill petu- 
lent chirp inclined to be characteristic. 
Common in a rather limited locality on the side of 
UptonlHill. They haunted brush fences, old log heaps, 
and thickets of raspberry bushes, rarely far from the 
woods and usually along their edges. Sometimes a pair 
would be found in some small but sunny opening v/ell 
v/ithin the forest, but never actually under its gloomy 
shade. In their habits and motions the 3 '’ resemble G_. 
tri cha s but are m.oro timid and retiring as v/ell as very 
much harder to shoot, for they plunge into their favor¬ 
ite thickets on the slightest alarm. Several males 
were shot in the very tops of the tallest beeches and 
birches a"ong the wood edges at least seventy or eighty 
feet above the ground. In these situations they shov/- 
ed m.uch activity, chasing insects among the branches and 
frequdntly singing „ Although they sang from elevated 
and exposed porches, much oftener than G.trichas this 
practice seemed rather the exception than the rule the 
present season, for usually the song v/ould be heard on 
or near the ground in the long heaps. It is a short 
but very sweet, rich v/arble sounding like v/hees- whees- 
Mlg-Os -v^h 0 es ,_t u-tu-tu-tuo . It va,ried somewhat with dif¬ 
ferent singers, and v/as sometimes shortened to whees - 
Yl h . Q „GS_-jyjjo-_tu^. Occasionally they sang on wing soaring 
high in air like S. aurocapi llus, prefixing a few extra 
notes to the ordinary ones, and at the end, closing their 
wings and dropping to the ground as if shot. 
Shot a young bird in full fall plumage. Also shot 
two young just from the nest v/hieh I take to bo of this 
species; they are darker about the head than the Mary¬ 
land Yellow-throat, and rather larger. One of them, 
hov/ever, uttered the characteristic tshay of the Mary¬ 
land ci.no. an adult female of that species was chirping 
anxiously near the spot. 
Shot a young male in full fall plumage, in a little 
opening on a v/ood path. This species is more deliber¬ 
ate in motions than the Maryland Yellov/-throat and I 
think does not jerk its tail at all. Its chirp, v/hich 
I heard distinctly to-day, is almost identical v/ith that 
of Siurus riaevius. 
