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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Myiodioctes mitratus, Aud. 



HOODED WAKBtEB. 



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Motacilla milrata, G.MELIN, S. N. I, 1788, 293. Sylmi m. Lath. ; Vieill. ; BoN. ; NuTT. ; 

 Aud. Orn. Biog. II, pi. ex. Sylvicolam. Max. Sylvania m. Nuttall, Man. I, 1840, 

 333. Setopliaga m. Jak0. Wilsonia m. BoK. 1838. — Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. 1864. 

 Myiodioctes m. Aui). Syn. 1839, 48. — Ib. Birds Am. II, pi. I.vxi. — Sclateu; P. Z. S. 

 1856, 291 (Cordova) ; 1858, 358 (Hondura.s). — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 292 ; Rev. 

 239. — .loNES, Xat. Bermuda, 1859, 26 (March). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 11 

 (Guatemala^. — L.\wrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VIII, 63 (Panama R. K..). — Gundlach, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Samuels, 245. Myiocloims m. Cad. Mus. Hein. 1851. 

 — In. Jour. Orn. Ill, 1855, 472 (Cuba). JJusciaijia cucullata, Wilson, HI, pi. xxvi, 

 fig. 3. Mjiscicaj)a selbyi, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. ix. 



Sp. Char. Male. Bill black ; feot pale yuUow. Head and neck all round and forepart 

 of the brea.st black. A broad patch on the forehead extending round on the entire checks 

 and ear-coverts, with the under parts, bright yellow. Upper parts and sides of the body 

 olive-green. Greater portion of inner web of outer three tail-feathers white. 



Female similar, but without the black ; the crown like the back ; the forehead yellow- 

 ish ; the sides of the head yellow, tinged with olive on tlie lores and ear-coverts. Throat 

 bright yellow. 



Length, 5.00; wing, 2.7.') ; tail, 2.55. (Skin.) 



IIab. Eastern Province of United States, rather southern ; Bermuda ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; 

 Eastern Mexico ; Hondura.s and Guatemala to Panama R. R. Orizalja (autumn, SuMi- 

 chrast) ; Yucatan (Lawrence). 



A young male in second year (2,245, Carlisle, Penn., May) is similar to 

 the female, but the hood is sharjily defined anteriorly, tli(mgli inily bordered 

 with black, the olive-green reaching turward almost to the yellow ; there are 

 only very slight indications of lilack on the throat. Apparently the male of 

 this species does not attain the full plumage until at least the third year, as 

 is the case with Sdophnga ruticiUa. 



Habits. This beautiful and singularly marked Warbler is a Southern spe- 

 cies, though not exclusively so. It is 

 more abundant in South Carolina than 

 any other State, so far as I am aware. 

 It is, however, found as far to the north 

 as Northern New Jersey and Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Southern New York, and, 

 farther west, as far north as the shores 

 of Lake Erie. It has also been found in 

 Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Eastern Mexi- 

 co, Honduras, and Giuxtemala. Through- 

 out Central America it appears to be abundant during the winter. 



Mr. Audubon also states that it abounds in Louisiana and along the banks 

 of the Mississijjpi and the Ohio. It occurs on tlu^ Hudson to some distance 

 above New York. It appears from the South early in March, aud has young 

 already hatched, in Louisiana, early in May. 



S/h/iodioctes pusiUvs. 



