DENDIICECID.!; — THE WARBLERS — MYIODIOCTES. IQl 



Myiodioctes pusillus, Wilsox. 



THE GEEEN BLACK-CAP WAEBLEK. 



Muscicapa pusilla, Wilson, Am. Oni. lU. KMl, 103; pi. xxvi. f. 4. —,%/«,»/„ pn.illa, 



Nl-ttall, Man. I. 2d cil. 1840, 335. 

 Hylviu Wilsonii, Bos.U'.iRTE, 01).s. Wilson, 18-26, Xo. 127. — XlTTT.iLL, Man. I. 1832, 408.— 



Musdcapa Vr^oriU, AUDUUON, Oni. Bio-. II. 1834, 148; pi. 124. — %,«(//of<.s Wilsonn, 



Audubon, Syn. 1839, 50. Ib. Birds Amcr. II. 1841, 21 ; pi. 75. 

 Myiodioctes pusillus, Bon.*.parte, Conspectus, 1850, 315. — Baird, V. R. Rep. IX. Bird.s 



293. — HEiiKMAXX, X. vi. 39. — Cod'ER and Sucklev, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 



182. 



Sp. Ch.\r. Forehead, line (iver and around tlie c.ve, and under parts generally bright 

 yellow. Upper part.s olive-green ; a square patch on the crown lustrous black. Sides of 

 body and cheeks tinged with ohve. Xo white on wings or tail. Female similar ; the 



black of the crown obscured by olive-green. Length, 4.7j; wing, 2.25 ; tail, 2.30. L'is 

 brown ; bill brown : leet Ijrownisli. 



Hub. United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; north to Kodiak, and south to 

 Guatemala. 



This pretty little bird arrives in California about the first week in Alay, 

 and passes far to the north, occurring in Sitka and Kudiak. They frequent 

 chiefly the deciduous trees and bushes near ■svater, and have much the same 

 habits and song as the Deudroica cestiva. 



According to Nuttall, they sometimes reach the Culuinbia Itiver the first 

 week in May, and he has seen them feeding their young by the 12th of 

 May ; so very probably some winter in California. He found a nest on 

 the brancli of a service-bash, built chiefly of moss, witli a thick lining of 

 grass, and containing finir eggs, Avliite with pale brown dots near the larger 

 end, in a sort of circle. They also build in fir-trees, according to Audubon. 

 The nest measures only 3.50 inches wide and L50 deep. 



The arrival of these little l)irds at Santa Cruz, in 1866, was about April 

 20th. I observed them ajiparently gathering materials for nests at that date, 

 the male singing merrily during the employment. From Nuttall's observa- 

 tions in Oregon, it would seem that they must arrive there quite as early, 

 or else a few remain all winter unnoticed among the .shrubljery. 



