320 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Myiodioctes canadensis, xVud. 



CANADA FLYCATCHEK. 



Musdmpa canadensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1706, 327. (Mitscicnpa caiuukiisis cincrea, Buis- 

 soN, II, 406, tab. 39, iig. i.) — Gmklin. — Wilson, III, pi. xxvi, lig. 2. — AuD. Orn. 

 Biog. II, j)l. ciii. Setophaga can. Sw.iiNs. ; Rich. ; Gray. Myiodioctes can. Auu. 

 Birds Am. 1 1, pi. ciii. — Br.EWEii, Fr. Bost. Soc. VI, 5 (nest and eggs). — Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1854, 111 (Ecuador; winter); 1855, 143 (Bogota); 1858, 451 (Ecuador).— 

 Ib. Catal. 1861, 34, no. 204. — Scl.viek & Salvi.n, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala).— 

 Lawrence, Ann N. Y. Lye. VI, 1SB2. — Baikd, Birds N. Am. 1858, 294 ; Rev. 239. 

 — Samuels, 247. Eulldijpis can. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1850, 1851, 18 ; Jour. Oni. 1860, 

 326 (Costa Rica). Sylvia pardalina, BoN. ; NuTT. Sylvicola pardaliim, BoN. Myio- 

 dioctes pardalina, Bon. I Musciixipa bonaparlei, AUD. Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 27, pi. v. 

 Setopliaga bon. RluH. IVilsonia bon. BoN. Hylvania boii. NuTT. 1 Myiodioctes ban. 

 AuD. Syn. — Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 17, pi. xvii. — Baiiu>, Birds N. Am. 1858, 295. 

 SetopJiaga nigricincta, Lafr. Rev. Zobl. 1843, 292 ; 1844, 79. 



Sp. Char. Uppor part bluish-ash ; a ring around the eye, with a line running to the 

 nostrils, and the wliole under part (except the tail-coverts, which are white), bright yellow. 

 Centres of the feathers in the anterior half of the crown, the cheeks, contiiuious with a 

 line on the side of the neck to the breast, and a scries of spots across tlie forepart of the 

 breast, black. Tail-feathers unspotted. Female similar, with the black of the head and 

 breast less distinct. In the young obsolete. Length, 5.34 ; wing, 2.G7 ; tail, 2.50. 



Hab. Whole E.-istern Province of United States, west to the Missouri ; north to Lake 

 Winnipeg; Eastern Mexico to Guatemala, and south to Bogota and Ecuador (Scl.wer). 

 Not noted from West Indies. 



Habits. This is a migratory species, abundant during its passage, in 

 most of the Atlantic States. It breeds, tliough not abundantly, in New 

 York and Massachusetts, and in the regions north of latitude 42°. How far 

 northward it is found is not well ascertained, probably as far, however, as the 

 wooded country extends. It was met with on Winnepeg Eiver, by Mr. Ken- 

 uicott, the second of June. It winters in Central and in Northern Soutli 

 America, having been procured at Bogota, in (Guatemala, and in Costa Itica, 

 in large numlters. 



Mr. Audubon .states that he found tliis bird breeding in Ibc iiiintnlainous 

 regions of Pennsylvania, and afterwards in Maine, New lU'uiiswick, Nova 

 Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Although he describes with some mi- 

 nuteness its nests, yet his description of their position and structure is so 

 entirely different in all res])ects from those that have been found in Massa- 

 chusetts, that I am constrained to believe he has been mistaken in his iden- 

 tifications, and that those he supposed to belong to this s])ecies were really 

 the nests of a different bird. 



" In Vermont," Mr. Charles S. Paine, of Randolph, informs me, " the Can- 

 ada Flycatcher is a summer visitant, and is first seen about the 18th of May. 

 They do not spread themselves over the woods, like most of our small fly- 

 catching birds, but keep near the borders, where there is a low growtli of 

 bushes, and where they may be heard tln-ougliout the day singing their regu- 



