MYIODIOCTES. 



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This genus differs from typical Setophaga in stouter feet and much 

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

 of M. 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. 



M. i^usilla and canadensis are quite similar, generically with 

 rather more tumid bill, and perhaps narrower tail feathers. 



The species of 3IyiocUoctes all belong to the United States, and 

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



Myiodioctes mitratus. 



MotacUla mitruta, Gmelin, S. N. 1, 1788, 293. — Sylvia m. Lath. — Vieil. 

 II, pi. 77. — Bon. ; Nutt. ; Aud. Oin. Biog. II, pi. 110. — Sylvicola m. 

 Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, WZ.—SijIvanix .n. Nuttall, Man. 1, 1840, 

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

 WiJuoniavi. Bon. 1838. — Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. 1864. — Mytodiocies 

 m. Aud. Syn. 1839,48.— Ib. B. A. II. pi. 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. Lye. VIII, 63 (Panama R. R.). — Gundlach, Cab. 

 Jour. 1861, 326 {Gnhsi). —Myioctonus m. Cab. Mus. Hein, 1851.— Is. 

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



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



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



Uab. 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 

 Yalley States as far north as Carlisle, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio* 

 also — 



Smith- 

 sonian 



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17,18.) 

 30,696 



Locality. 



Jamaica. 

 Choctum, Vera Paz. 



When 

 Collected. 



Received from 



J B. Smith. 

 Salvin. 



Collected by 



Alyiodioctes canadensis. 



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

 cinerea, 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, 



