314 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Myiodioctes mitratus, Aud. 



HOODED WARBLER. 



Motacilla mitrata, Gmelin, S. N. I, 1788, 293. Sylvia m. Lath. ; Vieill. ; Bon. ; Nutt. ; 

 Aud. Orn. Biog. II, pi. ex. Sijlvicolam. Max. Sylvania m. Nuttall, Man. I, 1810, 

 333. Setophaga m. Jard. Wilsonia m. Bon. 1838. — Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. 1864. 

 Myiodioctes m. Aud. Syn. 1839, 48. — Ib. Birds Am. II, pi. Ixxi. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1856, 291 (Cordova) ; 1858, 358 (Honduras). — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 292 ; Rev. 

 239. — Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 26 (March). — Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859,' 11 

 (Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lye. VIII, 63 (Panama R. R.). — Gundlach, 

 Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba). — Samuels, 245. Myioctonus m. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851. 

 — Ib. Jour. Orn. Ill, 1855, 472 (Cuba). Muscicaint cucuUata, Wilson, III, pi. xxvi, 

 fig. 3. Miiscicapa selbyi, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pi. ix. 



Sp. Char. Male. Bill black ; feet pale yellow. Head and neck all round and forepart 

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

 and ear-coverts, Avith the under parts, bright yellow. Upper parts and sides of the body 

 olive-green. Greater portion of inner web of outer three tail-feathers white. 



Female similar, but without the black ; the crown like the back ; the forehead yellow- 

 ish ; 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.) 



Hab. Eastern Province of United States, rather southern ; Bermuda ; Cuba ; Jamaica ; 

 Eastern Mexico ; Honduras and Guatemala to Panama R. R. Orizaba (autumn, Sumi- 

 chrast) ; Yucatan (Lawrence). 



A young male in second year (2,245, Carlisle, Penn., May) is similar to 

 the female, but the hood is sharply defined anteriorly, though only bordered 

 with black, the olive-green reaching forward almost to the yellow ; there are 

 only very slight indications of black on the throat. Apparently the male of 

 this species does not attain the full plumage until at least the third year, as 

 is the case with Setophaga ruticilla. 



Habits. This beautiful and singularly marked Warbler is a Southern spe- 

 cies, though not exclusively so. It is 

 more abundant in South Carolina than 

 any other State, so far as I am aware. 

 It is, however, found as far to the north 

 as Northern New Jersey and Pennsyl- 

 :^^^^ vania, and Southern New York, and, 

 farther .west, as far nortli as the shores 

 of Lake Erie. It has also been found in 

 Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Eastern Mexi- 

 Myiodioct, « pw^iiiu^ CO, Houduras, and Guatemala. Through- 



out Central America it appears to be abundant during the winter. 



Mr. Audubon also states that it abounds in Louisiana and along the banks 

 of the Mississippi and the Ohio. It occurs on the Hudson to some distance 

 above New York. It appears from the South early in IMarch, aud has young ' 

 already hatched, in Louisiana, early in ]\Iay. 



