. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . umberland river, by Wilson, is now believed to beonly the young of the present species. Length 4^ inches ; alar extent 7£. Above verditer blue (in Audu-bon azure) with a few streaks of black on the upper part of the and tail black, edged with pale blue. Tail forked, a whitespot in the 5 lateral feathers on each side; the 2 middle more slightlymarked with the same. From the eye backwards a line of duskyblue. Bill dusky above, light blue below. Legs and feet light blue.— Female, with the sides of the b
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . umberland river, by Wilson, is now believed to beonly the young of the present species. Length 4^ inches ; alar extent 7£. Above verditer blue (in Audu-bon azure) with a few streaks of black on the upper part of the and tail black, edged with pale blue. Tail forked, a whitespot in the 5 lateral feathers on each side; the 2 middle more slightlymarked with the same. From the eye backwards a line of duskyblue. Bill dusky above, light blue below. Legs and feet light blue.— Female, with the sides of the breast spotted or streaked with duskybluish. TRICHAS. (Swains.) GROUND WARBLERS. Bill as in Sylvicola, only somewhat slender and a littledecurved. 3d and 4th quills usually longest. Wings rathershort, rounded. Tail rounded and without spots. The species, (generally of humble flight, frequenting low busbes,and thickets and nesting low, or on the ground.) though few, are foundin the Middle and Northern States and even across the continent, inOregon, to the shores of the MARYLAND YELLOW-THROAT. (Trichas marylandica, Boxap. Sylvia Irichas, Lath. Audubon, pi. Biog. i. p. 121. [adult] S. marylandica, WiisoS, i. p. 83. pi. 1. [male.] and ii. p. 163. pi. 18. fig. 4. [female.] Phil. Museum,No. 7282.) Spec. Charact. — Yellow-olive; beneath yellow; front and widepatch through the eye black, bounded above by whitish-grey ;tail cuneiform. — Female without black on the face, and beneathdull yellow. This common and familiar species extends its summermigrations from Florida to Nova Scotia, arriving in Penn-slyvania towards the middle of April, and in this part ofNew England about the first week in May. They returnto the south in September; a few stragglers of the young,however, may be seen to the first week in October, andthough some may remain and winter in the SouthernStates, it is more probable that the main body retire atthis season into the interior of tropi
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