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GENUS SYLVANEA NUTTALL. 



Head of Hooded Flycatcher. 

 '276. Sylvania mitrata (Gmel.). HOODED WARBLER; HOODED FLYCATCHING WARBLER. 



Summer resident, generally rather rare, especially in the northern part of the 

 State; breed?. More common during the ppring migration. I have never found 

 it as a summer resident in Franklin County, but Dr. Hammond says it is rarely 

 such (Ind. Geol. JRep't, 1869, p. 217). Mr. Bldgway notes his observations in 

 Knox County as follows : " Rather common in deep woods, but much less so than 

 in the vicinity of the cypress swamp further south" (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 1882, p. 20). The same observer informs me that they breed in Knox and Gibson 

 Counties. Dr. F. W. Langdon has noted it as a summer resident in the vicinity of 

 Cincinnati (Journ. Cin. Soc. N. H., July, 1880, p. 123). Prof. Evermann notes 

 they are not common in Vigo County. Mrs. Hine informs me that she has but 

 twice observed them in Dekalb County, once as late as October. Mr. Coale notes 

 two occurrences within the State, one at Davis Station, Starke County, the other in 

 Lake County, where, May 24, 1879, after a storm, he picked up a dead one upon 

 the shore of Lake Michigan. Many other birds were also found dead at the same 

 time. This is another evidence of the great destruction of bird life on our lakes 

 by storms at the height of tne migrations. Mr. G. G. Williamson was fortunate 

 enough to find in Monroe County, May 26, 1886, a nest of this species containing 

 six young. They are late in arriving, never having been noted in Franklin 

 County before April 30, and usually not until the 6th and 10th of May. They 

 frequent the denser woodland, where they are found among the underbrush and 

 lower branches of the trees. They seem to be quite active. I have often noticed a 

 pecnliar spreading and closing of the tail. They remain until late in autumn, 

 having been taken at Brookville as late as October 20. The most abundant I have 

 ever seen them was among the dense woods along Sugar Creek, in Parke and Mont- 

 gomery counties, where they were quite common May 19 and 20, 1887. 



277. Sylvania pusilla (Wil*.). WILSON'S WARBLER; GREEN BLACK-CAPPED FLYCATCHING 

 WARBLER; BLACK-CAPPED YELLOW WARBLER. 



Migrant; more common in fall than spring. In southeastern Indiana I have 

 never found them common, in fact in spring they are exceedingly rare. In the 



Head of Wilson's Warbler. 



northern part of the State they appear to be more common. Mrs. Hine reports 

 them as tolerably common in D3kalb County, and Mr. J. G. Parker notes them as 

 rather common in the spring of 1886. 



