174 BIB06 OF ILLINOIS. 



Sylvania mitrata (Gxiel.) 



HOODED WARBLER 



Popular STUonynu. Blnck-hcmlvd WarbliT; HooUvd FlycotchloB Warbler; Milroil 

 Warblrr; Sijlby's WnrbliT. 

 Molacilla milratn Gmel. 8. X. i,178»,977. 

 Sulria milrala Lath.— XuTT. Man. I,1832,373.-AUD. Orn. Blog. li,1S34,68,pl. 60. 

 Wihonia miliala Bp. Comp. List. 1838, 23.— Bipow. Proc. U. S. Sat. Mus. 1880. 173. No. 124. 

 Suleania mitrata NuTT. Man. 2d ed. I. 1840,333. 



Myiodioclea mitraliis AVD. Synop. 1839,48: ]i. Km. II, 1841,12, pi. 71 r/nid-riMl.—BAlBD. 

 B, N, Am. 1858,292; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859,Xo. 211: Ruvlrw. 1865,2a9.-CouE9. Key, 18?.', 

 109; Clicck List 1873,Xo. 101; 2d ed. 1882, No. 146; B. X. W. 1874, 78: B. Col. Vul. 1878. 

 324.— B. B. & B. Hist. X. Am. B. 1, 1874, 314, pi. 15,tlt{s. 10,ll.-BiDO\v, Xom. X. Am. B. 

 1881. No. 124. 

 Si/lcia cucullata WlLS. Am. Orn. iii, 1811, 101, pi. 2fi,ne. 3. 

 Muscicnpa aeWi/ii Al'D. Orn. Bioc. i, 1831, 46, pi. 9. 

 iluscicapa seWii XuTT. Man. I, 1S32, 2%. 



Has. Eastern United States, north to Connecticut and Hudson Bivor Valleys, west- 

 ern New York, and Michigan; breeding throughout its summer range: casual to 

 Massachusetts; west to Kansas. Winters in Cuba, Jamaica, eastern Mexico, and Central 

 America, south to Panama; Bermudas. 



"8p. Chab. Hale. Bill black; feet pale yellow. Head and neck all round and fore- 

 part of the breast black. A broad patch on the forehead extending round on the entire 

 cheeks and ear-coverts, with the under parts bright yellow. Upper parts and Rides of 

 the body oUve-grcen. Greater portion of inner web of outer three tail-feathers white. 



"/'emn((> similar, but without the black; the crown like the back*; the forehead yel- 

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

 Throat bright yellow. 



"Length. 5.00; wing.2.75; tail.2.55. (Skin.)" {Hhl. X. Aii\. n.) 



"Mr C. Hart Merriam, in his late "Ecview of the Biids of Con- 

 necticut" (pp. 25 and 29), rectifies an error iu the recent descriptions 

 of the females of this species. I wish to add my testimony to his 

 conclusions, "that the female bu'd, like the male, is several years — 

 at least three — in attaining its full plumage ; and that the two 

 sexes, when fully adult, can only be distinguished by the fact that, 

 in the female, the throat, though strongly tinged with black, is 

 never jnire black as m the male." Long ago I discovered these 

 facts, as the bu-d is an abundantly breeding summer resident here, 

 where I have taken several of their nests in a single walk. With 

 a large series of specimens before me, I can fully endorse Mr. 

 Merriam's views. The females of the second summer are entirely 

 without any black upon the head, and I have frequently found them 

 sitting upon their eggs in this condition. Males of the same age 

 show vei7 evident traces of black. Only in extreme examples does 



• See, however. Mr. Mearns's note, given below. 



