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rather common; arriving the first week in May. Haunts the 

 low, open woodlands and thickets along the streams. Nidifi- 

 cation commences about the first week in June. The nest is 

 usually placed four or five feet from the ground, in a thickly 

 foliaged bush. It is composed of dry grasses and leaves, and 

 lined with fine grasses and fibers of bark. The eggs number 

 three to five." 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 



Third and fourth quills the longest; second and fifth little 

 shorter; first nearly equal to sixth. Tail graduated. Upper 

 parts uniform olive green; under parts, including the inside of 

 wing, gamboge yellow as far as nearly half way from the point 

 of the bill to the tip of the tail; rest of under parts white, 

 tinged with brown on the sides; outer side of tibia plumbeous; 

 a slight tinge of orange across the breast. Forehead, and sides 

 of head ash, the lores and region below the eyes, blackish. A 

 white stripe from the nostrils over the eye and involving the 

 upper eyelid; a patch on the lower lid, and a short stripe from 

 the side of the lower mandible, running to a point opposite the 

 hinder border of the eye, white. Bill, black; feet, brown. 



Length, 7.40; wing, 3.25; tail, 3.30. 



Habitat, eastern United States to the Plains. 



Note. The above has been written some years, and I take 

 pleasure in stating that Dr. T. S. Roberts verbally reported a 

 specimen he had received from some one within our borders 

 obtained in 1890. P. L. H. 



SYLVANIA MITRATA. (Gmelin.) (684.) 



HOODED WARBLER. 



It has only been made evident that this species is fairly well 

 represented in restricted localities after many years of careful 

 inquiry. The first individual that came into my hands I se- 

 cured May 12th, 1869, since which time at different times per- 

 haps a half dozen or more have been received. It has been a 

 surprise to me that my correspondents have not reported it; 

 still its habits of concealment are such that one must be able 

 to give it much time to obtain specimens even where previously 

 known to be moderately well represented. Even the song, 

 though simple and often quite continuously maintained, differs 

 so very much under a change of the time of the day, and the 

 weather that it is only after repeated and the most careful no- 

 tings that its presence becomes assured by it alone. In western 

 New York where I once lived, it was a common summer resi- 

 dent, but almost as unknown to casual observation as it is in 

 Minnesota. Its habits of eating are like those of the flycatch- 



