182 ZOOLOGY. 



The summer yellow bird is abundant in this Territory, having the same habits and song as 

 in the eastern States. I noticed their arrival in large numbers at the Straits of De Fuca as 

 early as April 8. Its nest is built in a bush but a few feet from the ground, formed of fibres 

 of roots, bark, &c., and the eggs, about five in number, are white, sprinkled with spots near 

 the larger end. — C. 



This bird is abundant among the scrub oaks, thickets, and bushes on the Nisqually plains. 

 The late moult commences early in August. May 3, 1856, Fort Steilacoom, Washington 

 Territory. Specimen 359. Bill, grayish blue; legs, pale. — S. 



MYIODIOCTES PUSILLUS, Bonap. 



Green Black-cap Flycatcber. 



Muscicapa pusHla, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 103; pi. xxvi, f. 4. 



Wilsonia pusilla, Bonap. List, 1838. 



Sylvania puiilla, Nuttall, Man. I, 3d ed. 1840, 335. 



Myiodioctes pusillus, Bonap. Conspectns, 1850, 315. —Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 593. 



Sylvia wilsonii, Bonap. Obs. Wilson, 1826, No. 127.— Nuttall, Man. I, 1832, 408. 



Muscicapa wilsonii, AcD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 148; pi. 124. 



Myiodioctes tcilsonii, Add. Syn. 1839, 50.— Ib. Birds Am. II, 1841, 21; pi. 75 



Sp. Ch. — Forehead, line over and around the eye, and under parts generally bright yellow. Upper part, olive green; a 

 square patch on the crown lustrous black. Sides of body and cheek tinged with olive. No white on wings or tail. Female 

 similar; the black of the crown obscured by olive green. 



Length, 4.75 to 6; extent, 5.25 to 8.75.'; wing, 2.25; tail, 2.30. 



Hab. — United States from Atlantic to Pacific; south to Guatemala. 



This bird is very abundant in the neighborhood of Fort Steilacoom, frequenting thickets and 

 small scrub oak groves. In habits it much resembles the Helminthophaga celata, flitting about 

 among the dense foliage of bushes and low trees in a busy, restless manner, like the "little 

 joker," "now you see him, now you dont." Its cry is a short chit-chat call. — S. 



I have seen two or three times on the coast a yellow warbler with a black crown, which was 

 probably "Wilson's flycatcher, found by Nuttall in Oregon. I only noticed them in spring and 

 fall.— C. 



Sub-Family TANAGRINAE.— T h e Tanagers. 



PYRANGA LUDOVICIANA, Bonap. 



Iionlslana Tanager, 



Tanap-a ludoviciana, Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 27; pi. xx, f. 1.— Eon. Obs. 1826, 95.- AuD. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838; 



385: V, 839, 90; pi. .354, 400. 

 Tanagra {Pyranga) ludoviciana, Bonap. Syn., 1828, 105 — Ndttall, Man. I, 1832, 471. 

 Pyranga ludoviciana, Rich. List, 1837.— Bonap. List, 183'i.— Aud. Syn. 1839, 137.— Ib. Birds Amer. Ill, 1841,211; 



pi. 210.— ScLATER, Pr. Zool Soc. 1856, 125.— Baird, Gen. Rep. Birds, p. 303. 



Sp. Ch. — Bill shorter than the head. Tail slightly forked ; first three quills nearly equal. Male, yellow; the middle of the 

 back, the wings, and the tail, black. Head and neck all round strongly tinged with red; least so on the sides. A band of 

 yellow across the middle coverts, and of yellowish white across the greater ones; the tertials more or less edged with whitish. 

 Female, olive green above, yellowish beneath; the feathers of the interscapular region dusky, margined with olive. The wing^ 

 and tail rather dark brown, the former with the same marks as the male. Length, 7.25; wing, 3.60; tail, 2.85. Legs and feet 

 dusky lead color; bill pale dusky green, darker on the ridge and at the base. 



Hob. — From the Black Hills to the Pacific; south to Mexico. 



