SYLVICOLIDJE—SETOPHAGINyE: FLY-CATCHING WARBLERS. 313 



to be described, four or five others may be expected to occur over our Mexican border, — among 

 them the lovely Cardellina rubra, whicli is carmine red all over, with silky white ears ; Seto- 

 phaga mininta, very near S. picta; and species of the genus Basileuterus. Onr three genei-a 

 arc readily distinguished, so far as our species are concerned, by coloration. 



Anali/sis of Genera. 



cf Black, white, and orange; $ brown, white, and yellow Seiophaga 46 



(f $ Ashy, white, and carmine or rosy red Cardellina 45 



cf 9 Witliout brown, red, or orange Myiodioctes* 44 



MYIODIOC'TES. (6r. fiv'ia, mtcia, a tly, and dioiKrrjs, dioktes, a pursuer.) Fly-catching 

 Warblers. Bill Muscicapine, though with lateral outlines a little concave, broad and depressed 

 at base, with many obvious rictal bristles reaching decidedly beyond the nostrils ; culmen and 

 commissure nearly straight. Wings pointed, as in most Si/lvicoUdce, longer than tail ; 1st quill 

 longer than 5th, 3d equalling or exceeding 4th. Tail narrow, even or little rounded. Middle 

 toe without claw about three-fifths as long as tarsus. Tail unmarked, or with white blotches 

 as in Dendroeca. No red or flame-color : always yellow below. Comprehends three species, 

 well distinguished among Sylvicolidce by the development of the rictal bristles and the depressed 

 shape of the bill, though these Muscicapine characters are not pushed to the extreme seen in 

 Setophaga. The tail is narrow, lacking the fan-shaped contour of that of SetopJiaga, and the feet 

 are stouter, with longer toes. In Cardellina, a near ally, the bill is narrow and conoidal, some- 

 what Parine in appearance, with curved culmen. In Basileuterus, and-in fact in all the extra- 

 limital forms of the Fly-catching Warblers, the wing is rounded, with the 1st quill shorter than 



the 5th. 



Analysis of Species. 



Olive and yellow ; tail-feathers white-blotched mitratus 14G 



Olive and yellow ; tail-feathers plain pusillus 147 



Ashy-blue and yellow: tail-feathers plain canadensis 149 



M. mitra'tus. (Lat. mitratus, wearing a mitre, or other head-dress. Fig. 173.) Hooded Fly- 

 catching Warbler. $, adult: Clear yellow-olive above; below, rich yellow, shaded with 

 olive along the sides; whole head and neck pure black, en- 

 f^^^'^^^S^^^^^^ closing a broad golden mask across forehead and through eyes ; 



^ ^, ^^^^^ wings unmarked, glossed with olive ; tail with large white 

 blotches on the two or three outer pairs of feathers, as in 

 Bendrceca; bill black ; feet flesh -colored. Length 5.00-5.25 ; 

 extent 8.50; wing about 2.75; tail about 2.25. 9> adult, 

 and young $, with the black restricted or interrupted, if not 

 wholly wanting, as it is in the earlier stages, when the parts 

 concerned are simply colored to correspond with the upper 

 Fig. 173. — Hooded Warbler, nat. and under surfaces of the bird. Hood said to be not perfected 

 «ize. {Ad nat. del. E. c.) ^.^^ ^,^^ ^j^.^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ acquired, in the fulness 



of its extent if not in the purity of the black, by the female. Eastern U. S., strictly; N. 

 regularly to the Connecticut Valley ; W. to Kansas ; migratory ; breeds at large in its U. S. 

 range ; winters extralimital. A lovely bird, reminding one of the 



Kentucky warbler, common in the south in such brakes and bottoms ^ ^_ 



as the Kentucky haunts, rarer northward. Nest in bushes ; eggs 4, "^^^^ -^0^^^^^ 

 about 0.70 X 0.50, as usual white, reddish-sprinkled. '"" ^' 



M. pusillus. (Lat. pusillus, puerile, petty, small. Fig. 171'.) 

 Black-capped Fly-catching Warbler. ^, adult: Upper 

 parts, including exposed edgings of the wings and tail, bright yel- 

 lowish-olive ; under parts, including front and sides of the head Fio- 174. -Black-capped 

 ' ' ' '^ Warbler, nat. sue. (Ad nat. 

 and superciliary line, rich yellow, shaded with olive on the sides. A ,iei. E.G.) 



