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Wilsonia citrina (Boddaert) 

 Hooded Warbler 



Plate 98 



Muscicapa citrina Boddaert. Table PL Enl. 1783. 41 

 Wilsonia m i t r a t a DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 107, fig. 128 

 Wilsonia citrina A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. iqio. 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 

 yellmv; 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 1 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 12th of May; Long Island records, 



