MYIODIOCTES. 



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This genus differs from typical Setophaga in stouter feet and luuch 

 longer toes — the middle toe of S. ruticilla not exceeding the lateral 

 of 21. mitratus. The tail is shorter than the wings, not longer than 

 or at least equal to them. The bill is differently shaped, being nar- 

 rower and more cylindrical, though decidedly depressed ; the lateral 

 outlines are slightly concave, not about straight. The tip is less 

 decurved. 



21. 2:)usUla and canadensis are quite similar, generically with 

 rather more tumid bill, and perhaps narrower tail feathers. 



The species of 2Iyiodioctes all belong to the United States, and 

 I have already given a synopsis of their characters in Birds N. Am. 



Myiodioctes luitratus. 



MotaciUa mdrata, Gmelix, S. N. 1, 17S8, 293. — Sijlvia m. Lath. — Vieil. 

 II, pi. 77. — Bon. ; Nutt. ; Acd. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 110. — Syh-icola m. 

 Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 113. — Sylvanij. .n. Nuttall, Man. 1, 1840, 

 333. — Setophaga m. Jard. — D'Orb. Sagra's Cuba Ois. 1840, 89. — 

 Wjlsonia m. Bon. 1838. — Allen, Pr, Essex lust. 1864. — Myiodioctes 

 m. AuD. Syn. 1839,48.— Ib. B, A. II.pl. 71.— Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 

 291 (Cordova) ; 1858,358 (Honduras).— Ib. Catal, 1861,33,no. 202. 

 — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858. 292.— Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 26 

 (March). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala) — Law- 

 rence, Ann. N. Y. Lj-c. VIII, 63 (Panama R. R.).— Gundlach, Cab. 

 Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). — ^fijioctonus m. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851. — Ib. 

 Jour. Orn. Ill, 1855, 472 (Cuba). 



Muscicapa cucullata, Wilson, III, pi. xxvi, fig. 3. 



Muscicapa selhyi, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. 9. 



Hah. Eastern Province of United States, rather southern ; Bermuda ; Cuba • 

 Jamaica ; eastern Mexico ; Honduras and Guatemala to Panama R. R. 



Specimens from various points in the Atlantic and Mississippi 

 Talley States as far north as Carlisle, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio • 

 also — 



Jamaica 

 Clioctum, Vera Paz. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



CoHected by 



J. B Smith. 

 0. Salvin. 



Myiodioctes canadensis. 



Muscicapa canadensis, Linn. S. N. I, 1766, 327. (Muscicapa canadensis 

 cinei-ea, Brisson, II, 406, tab. 39, fig. 4) — Gmelin. — Wilson, III, pi. 

 xxvi, fig. 2. — Aud. Orn. Biog. II, pi. 103.— Setophaga can. Swains. ; 

 Rich. ; Gray. — Myiodioctes can. Aud. B. A. II, pi. 103. — Brewer 



