320 .NORTH AMERICAN IJIRDS. 



Myiodioctes canadensis, Ari>. 



CANADA FLTCATCHEB. 



Muscicnpa envaihufiis, I. inn. Syst. Xat. I, I7t>«5, ;V27. {Miisrirn/m canadrnsis ciurrrn, Rims- 

 SDN, II, 4(tt), t;il>. :>l», W'^. 4.) - (Imki.in. — Wilson, 111, pi. xxvi, ti-,'. 2. — Am. Orn. 

 I'lioi,'. II, i>I. «'iii, .Si-foii/iii'ff Clin. Swains. ; Kk ii. ; (Iuay. MijiiHliiH'tcs otn. Aii». 

 liinls Am. II, itj. ciii. — Bi:i;wi:i:, I'r. Host. Stu-. VI, .'Miicst and «<(gs). - St i.ateu, 

 r. Z. S. l^r»4, 111 ^Kcuador; wintt'i); IS."*'., 143 (Ro^'ota) ; Rs.'.S, 4")! ^K«ua.lor). — 

 1b. Catal. ]8»n, 34, no. '2(14. — Sclaikk ^Sc Sai.vin, Uns, 18.'»!», 11 ^Cuatcinala). — 

 Lawi:kn< K, Aim N. Y. Lye VI, 1><)-J. — Raikd, lUnls N. Am. 1>:)S. -JlU ; R.v. -IVX 

 — Samiki.s, 'J47. Eiitlihji'is cm. (A!!. Mils, llcin. IS'.o, Ls;»l, 18 : .lonr. Oru. ISCiO, 

 32t> (Costa Rica K Hiih-iu pdriluliiui, R(;N, ; NUTT. Siili'icohi purdtiliiKi, Run. Miiin- 

 diocti's jHirdtdiiia, R(»n. .' Musciaijid binuipartti, Ari». Orn. Rio^. 1, 1S31, 27, J'l. v. 

 Sifi>j)/((Hfit hdii. I»l( II. U'ilsviiin (>ihi. Ron. Sifl oinin l»>ii. Xl'll". t Milii'dioifis h<ni. 

 Am. Syn. — Ib. liinls Am. II, 1S41, 17, |»1. -wii. - Raik.-, Rirds N, Am. 1858, 21)5. 

 iido2)ha(ja niijricincfa, Lafu. Rev. Zool. 1843, 2i«2 ; 1841, 7l>. 



8p. Char. T^pp<T part bluish-ash ; a nnij around tho i yo, with a hue ruuninjj to the 

 nostrils, and tlicvviiolo under part (except the tail-covei-ts, whit-h are wiiite), hiiudit yi'llow. 

 Centres ot" the leathers in the anteiior hall" of tlie erown. ihe cheeks. <'ontiiuious with a 

 line on the side of the neck to the hreast, and a series of sj)ots across tlM> lorejtart of the 

 breast, l»hick. Tail-featiiers un.spotted. Fomde similar, with the Mack )f the head and 

 hreast le.ss distinct. In the ^'>^n/</ obsolete. Lentrth. ">..'>4 ; wintr. 2.<»7; tail, 2.')0. 



IIaij. Whole Eastern Province of Uniletl States, west to the Missouii ; north to Lake 

 Winnipejr ; Eastern Mexico to Guatemala, and .south to Rogota and Ecuador (Sci.ateh). 

 Not noted I'roni West Indies. 



Habits. This is a mi«:ifrat()ry specios, almndant duriiv^ its passaijo, in 

 most of tlie Atlantic States. It Itroeds, tlioiiLib not :il»iiiRlanily, in Xuw 

 York and ^rassachiisetts, and in tlie rejjjions north of latitude 42°. How far 

 northward it is fonnd is not \>'ell ascertained, ja-ohahly as far, however, as the 

 wooded country extends. It was met with on Winiiejtejjj liiver, by Mr. Ken- 

 nicott, the second of June. It winters in Central and in Northern South 

 America, having l)een procured at l»Oi^ota, in (luateniala, and in Costa liica, 

 in laru^e numhers. 



!Mr. Audubon states that he found this bird breedinij in the mountainous 

 regions of IVnnsylvania, and afterwanls in Maine, New lirunswick. Nova 

 Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Altbough he describes with some mi- 

 nuteness its nests, yet his descri]»tion of their ])osition and structure is so 

 entirely different in all res]>ects from those that have been found in ^lassa- 

 rhusetts, that I am constrained to believe he has been mistaken in bis ideii- 

 tilications, and that tliose he supposed to belong to this species were really 

 the nests of a different bird. 



"In Vermont," Mr. Charles S. Paine, of IJandi^lph, informs me, "the Can- 

 ada Flycatcher is a summer visitant, and is first seen about the ISth of May. 

 TJiey do not s])read themselves over the woods, like most of our small fly- 

 catching birds, but keep near the borders, where there is a low growth of 

 bushes, and where they may be heard throughout the day singing their regu- 



