438 sraioTiLTiD^. 



Sylvia mitrata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 628 (1790) ; Vieill. Ois. Amer. 

 Sept. ii. p. 23, pi. 77 (1807); Audub. B. Amer. pi. 60; id. Orn. 

 Bioyr. ii. p. 06 (1834). 

 Muscicapa pileata, Steph. Gen. Zool. x. p. 399(1817). 

 Muscicapa cucullata, WUsmi, Amer. Orn. iii. p. 101, pi. 26. fig. 3 



(1811). 

 Muscicapa selbii, Audub. B. Amer. pi. 9 ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. pi. 46 



(1831 J; Nutt. Man. 1832, p. 296. 

 Setopliaga mitrata, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 389 (1832) ; 



Riehards. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172 ; D'Orb. in Ramon 



de la Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 75 (1838) ; Orag, Gen. B. i. 



p. 265 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 244, no. 3534 (1869). 

 Wilsonia mitrata, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. ^- N. Amer. p. 23 (1838) ; 



AUen, Bidl. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambr. iii. p. 175 (1872). 

 Myiodioctes mitratus, Audub. Sgn. p. 48 (1839) ; id. B. Amer. ii, 



p. 12, pi. 71 (1841) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 315 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 291, 1858, p. 358 ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 292 (1858) ; 



Scl. Sf Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 11 ; Taglor, Ibis, 1860, p. 110 ; Gundl. 



J. f. O. 1861, p. 326 ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 33 (1862) ; Scl. ^ 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 347 ; Baird, Review Amer. B. p. 239 (1865) ; 



Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 478 ; Lazvr. Ann. Lye. K. Y. viii. p. 284 



(1866), ix. p. 200 (1868) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. 



p. 547 (1869) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. p. 109 (1872) ; Sno^v, B. 



Kansas, p. 5 (1873) ; Scl. |- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 10 (1873) ; 



Coues, B. N.- West, p. 78 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer, (§■ Ridgw. Hist. 



N. Amer. B. i.p.314, pi. 15. figs. 10, 11 (1874) ; Gundl. Orn. Cuba, 



p. 71 (1876) ; Coiies, B. Color: Vail. p. 324 (1878) ; Ridgiv. Bidl. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 19 (1881) ; Salv. Sr Godm. Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Ares, i. p. 167 (1881) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 441. 

 Sylvania mitrata, Nutt. Man. 1840, p. 333 ; Woodh. in Sitgr. Rep. 



Zuni R. p. 69 (1853). 

 Mjaoctouus mitratus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 18 (1850) ; Gundl. 



J.f. O. 1855, p. 472, 1861, p. 407. 

 Sylvicola mitrata, Neuwied, J. f. O. 1858, p. 113. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, rather more 

 yellow towards the lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater coverts ashy brown, externally 

 edged with yellowish green ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 ashy brown, the latter slightly fringed with yellowish green ; quills 

 ashy brown, margined with yellowish green, the primaries fi-inged 

 with whitish towards their ends ; tail-feathers ashy brown, washed 

 externally with yellowish green, the three outer feathers white, 

 their outer webs ashy brown, the inner web with a patch of ashy 

 brown near the base, increasing in extent towards the centre 

 of the tail ; crown of the head jet-black as well as the hind ueck 

 and sides of the neck joining the fore neck, which, with the 

 entire throat, is also black, except a narrow yellow line along the 

 angle of the chin ; lores dusky black ; fore part of head bright 

 yellow, extending backwards along the sides of the crown, and 

 including the ear-coverts, eyelid, sides of face, and cheeks ; re- 

 mainder of under surface from the fore neck downwards bright 

 yellow, a little paler on the under tail-coverts ; flanks slightly 

 tinged with green ; axillarics and under wing-coverts white, slightly 



