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probably these latter that stop at Cuba and Jamaica in their northward journey in the 
month of April. In Guatemala it resorts chiefly to the thick second-growth woods, 
keeping to the underwood rather than the larger trees. It is of restless habits, con- 
stantly jerking open its wings and tail. 
The summer quarters of M/. mitratus are restricted to the more southern of the 
eastern States; and here it breeds, making a nest in oak bushes four or five feet from the 
ground. This is constructed outwardly of dry leaves and coarse grass, and lined with 
horse-hair, pine-leaves, and slender grass. The eggs, usually four in number, are 
described as white, with spots of a fine red, and a few markings of a subdued purple . 
8. Myiodioctes pusillus. 
Muscicapa pusilla, Wils. Am. Orn. ii. p. 103, t. 26. f. 4°. 
Myiodioctes pusillus, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 291°; 1858, p. 299°; 1859, pp. 363*, 874°; Scl. & Salv. 
Ibis, 1859, p. 11°, Baird, U. S. Bound. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 107; Rev. Am. B. i. p. 240°; Cab. 
J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 325°; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 478°°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. H. ix. p. 95"; 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 270”; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 294°°; Sumichrast, Mem. 
Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 547"; Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 183°; Dugés, La Natur. i. p. 140*°; 
Baird, Brew. & Bidgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 817"; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 826”. 
_ Sylvia petasodes, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57”). 
Motacilla pileolata, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 497”. 
Myjiodioctes pusillus, var. pileolatus, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B.1. p. 319”; Lawr. Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 16”. 
Supra olivaceus, alis et cauda fuscis olivaceo extus limbatis; capite summo nitente nigro; fronte, capitis 
lateribus et corpore toto subtus flavis, hypochondriis olivaceo indutis; rostro maxilla cornea, mandibula 
carnea; pedibus pallide coryllinis. Long. tota 4°4, ale 2:2, caude 2:0, tarsi 0°73, rostri a rictu 0°45, 
(Descr. maris ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
9 mari similis, pileo dorso concolori. 
Hab. North America generally, Arizona1®, Texas!0—Muexico (Sallé?), Monterey 
(Couch’), Guadalajara and Tepic (Grayson *), Colima (Xantus 12), Guanajuato 
(Dugés 16), Santuario (Deppe*4), Mirador (Sartorius®), Velasco and Apam (le 
Strange), Jalapa (de Oca*), Orizaba (Sumichrast \4), Oaxaca (Fenochio), La Parada?, 
Totontepec® and Villa Alta® (Boucard), Guichicovi (Sumichrast 22); GUATEMALA, 
Duefias ®, San Gerénimo, Coban (0. S. & F. D.G.); Costa Rica, Barranca and 
Grecia (Carmiol 4), San José‘! and Volcan de Poas 1° (v. Frantzius), Irazu (Rogers), 
Orosi (Kramer); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé 15). 
Mr. Ridgway ?! recognizes two races of this bird:—one inhabiting the Pacific coast- 
region of North America, and southwards to Western Mexico and Costa Rica, to which 
he applies Pallas’s name pileolatus?°; and the other Eastern North America and 
Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica, to which Wilson’s name pusid/us! is applicable. 
The former is distinguished by the greater richness of the yellow of its plumage, the 
