MYIODIOCTES. 239 
This genus differs from typical Sefophaga in stouter feet and much 
longer toes—the middle toe of S. ruticilla not exceeding the lateral 
of JZ 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 iess 
decurved. 
M. pusilla and canadensis are quite similar, generically with 
rather more tumid bill, and perhaps narrower tail feathers. 
- The species of Myiodioctes all belong to the United States, and 
I have already given a synopsis of their characters in Birds N. Am. 
Myiodioctes mitratus. 
Motacilla mitrata, Gmeuiy, S. N. I, 1788, 293.—Sylvia m. Lara.—Vret. 
II, pl. 77.—Bon. ; Nurr. ; Avp. Orn. Biog. II, pl. 110.—Sylvicola m. 
Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 113.—Sylvania m. Nurrat, Man. I, 1840, 
333.—Setophaga m. JARp.—D’Ors. Sagra’s Cuba Ois. 1840, 89.— 
Wilsonia m, Bon. 1838.—ALLEN, Pr. Essex Inst. 1864.—Myiodioctes. 
m. Aup. Syn. 1839, 48.—Is. B, A. II. pl. 71.—Scuarer, P. Z. 8. 1856, 
291 (Cordova) ; 1858, 358 (Honduras).—Is, Catal. 1861, 33, ne. 202. 
—Bairp, Birds N. Am. 1858, 292.—Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 26 
(March).—Scnarer & Saxviy, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala) —Law- 
RENCE, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. VIII, 63 (Panama R. R.).—Gunpacu, Cab. 
Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba).—A/yoctonus m. Cas. Mus. Hein. 1851.—Is. 
Jour. Orn. III, 1855, 472 (Cuba). 
Muscicapa cucullata, Wison, III, pl. xxvi, fig. 3. 
Muscicapa selbyi, Aup. Orn. Biog. I, pl. 9. 
Hab. 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 
Valley States as far north as Carlisle, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio- 
also— 
| 
Smith- Collee-| Sex | When 
sonian; tors | and Locality. ; Received from Collected b 
No: | No. |Age. | Collected. y 
17,185 2 Jamaica. Gis JABS Matha. rales eee es 
30,696 g | Choctum, Vera Paz, 1861, OP Sally aoe yey i hy Fe 
Myiodioctes camadenmsis. 
Muscicapa canadensis, Linn. 8. N. I, 1766, 327. (Muscicapa canadensis 
cinerea, Brisson, II, 406, tab. 39, fig. 4) —Gwenin. Wixtsoy, III, pl. 
xxvi, fig. 2.—Avup. Orn. Biog. II, pl. 103.—Setophaga can. Swatns. 
Ricu.; Gray.—Myiodioctes can. Avuv. B, A. II, pl. 103.—Brewer, 
