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Wilsonia citrina (Boddaert) 

 Hooded Warbler 



Plate 98 



Muscicapa citrina Boddaert. Table PL Enl. 1783. 41 

 Wilsonia mitrata DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 107, fig. 128 

 Wilsonia citrina A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 324. No. 684 



wilsonia, genus named by Bonaparte in honor of Alexander Wilson, father of Ameri- 

 can ornithology ; citrina, like a citron, yellow 



Description. Upper parts olive green; face and under parts bright 

 yellow; 3 pairs of outer tail feathers largely white; a jet black hood covering 

 the crown of the head extending around the sides of the neck and covering 

 the throat, inclosing the brilliant yellow face. Female: The whole face 

 and under parts yellow, black appearing behind the crown and running 

 down the side of the neck, barely indicating the hood. 



Length 5.67 inches; extent 8.25; wing 2.58; tail 2.3; bill .4; tarsus .77. 



Distribution. Breeds from southeastern Nebraska, southwestern 

 Michigan, central New York and the lower Connecticut valley south to 

 Louisiana and Georgia; winters from Vera Cruz and Yucatan to Panama, 

 occasionally to Cuba. Its breeding range in New York is shown by the 

 map on page 28 of volume i of this work. It is rare on Long Island and 

 apparently occurs only as a transient visitant in the immediate vicinity of 

 New York, and in Westchester county it is also a rare species; but farther 

 north and west, especially near Highland Falls, it is found as an abundant 

 summer resident; also at Palenville, Greene county (La Dow, Auk, 25:480). 

 In the interior of New York its distribution is local, but breeding colonies 

 of considerable extent have been noticed in Cortland county by Higgins; 

 in Madison county by Maxon, Bagg and Embody; in northern Cayuga and 

 Wayne counties by Rathbun and Wright; near Brockport by David Bruce; 

 near Forest Lawn, Monroe county, by Dr C. A. Dewey and Mr George 

 Perkins; near Springville by E. H. Eaton; in East Hamburg by Thomas 

 N. Bunting; near Mayville by A. E. Kibbe. The date of the arrival of 

 the Hooded warbler in spring averages Mays i n southeastern New York; 

 in central New York from the 6th to the I2th of May; Long Island records, 



