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NORTH AMERICAN lilRUS. 



Mjdodioctes mitratus, Aud. 



HOODED WABBLEB. 



Mofacilhi mltmta, (fMKLix, 8. N. I, 17.^8, U^S. Sijlvin m. L.VTii. ; ViEiLL. ; Hon. ; NrxT. ; 

 Ari». ihu. IJitt^'. II, |»1. ex. Siilckulu m. Max. S'llrnuitt i,i. NriTALL, Man. I, 1}>40, 

 a33. JSitoj'/unja in. .JaUD. ]i'ils<iili<i m. B(tN. 1S3S. — ALLKN, I'r. E.s.st'X Inst. I^<i4. 

 MyioiUiHt.s in. All*. Svn. 1J?:31>, 48. — In. IJinIs Am. II, pi. l.wi. — Sclatkk, P. Z. S. 

 18i«>, 2iH ir'onlova) ; !>.'*>, 3.> (Ilon«lmii>). — Baii;i», lUnls X. Am. 18."»8, 2l>2 ; \W\. 



239. loMs, Nat. IJtnnutla, 18r>lt, 2*; ^Maivh). — Sri.ATKii & Salvin, Iliis, !>.','.», 11 



((.JuatcniahO. — I.awiiknck, Ann. X. Y. Lye, VUI, <ii (Panama K. K.). — (Jindlac ii, 

 Cab. Jour. lJ>t!l, 3'jtj (Cuba). — Samtel-s, 245. Mijim:founs m. {'\\\. Mus. Ib-iu. 18."»1. 

 — Ib. Jour. Orn. Ill, lSj."», 472 (Cuba). Muscic(fj»i cucull'da, WiLsox, III, pi. xxvi, 

 fig. 3. Musck'ojMi silhiji, All). Urn. liio^. 1, \>\. ix. 



Sp. Char. Mule. Rill black; Ic-i't pule yellow. Head ami neck all round and forepart 

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

 and ear-eovert;!, with the undi'r parts, bright yellow. Upper paits and sides of the boily 

 olive-L'reen. Greater portion of inner web of outer three tail-feathers white. 



Female similar, but without the l»lack ; the crown like the l>ack ; the forehead yellow- 

 ish ; the sides of the head yellow, tinged with olive on tlie lores aud ear-coverts. Throat 

 bright yellow. 



Length, r>.00 ; wing, 'i.?-") : tail, 2.55. (Skin.) 



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

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

 ciirast) ; Yucatan (Lawkkxck). 



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 l)laok, the olive-green reaching forward almost to the yellow ; there are 

 only very slight ind-cations of black ori the throat. Apparently the r.iale of 

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

 is the case with Stfaphaffo ruticiJla. 



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

 cies, thougli not exclusively so. It is 

 more abundant in South Carolina than 

 any other State, so far as I am aware. 

 It is, liowever, found as far to tlie north 

 as Xorthern New Jersey and Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Southern New York, and, 

 farther west, as far north as the shores 

 of Liike Erie. It has also been found in 

 Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Eastern ^lexi- 

 00, HonduT-as, and CJuatemala. Through- 

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



Mr. Audulx)!! 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 Xew York. It appears from the South early in ^farch, and has young 

 already hatched, in Louisiana, early in May. 



Myiodiort' s piisillus. 



