SPECIES 13. MUSCICtfPrf CUCULLATtf, 



HOODED FLYCATCHER. 



[Plate XXVI. Fig. 3.] 



Le gobe-mouche citrin, BUFFON, iv, 538. PL Enl 666. Hooded 

 Warbler, Arct. Zool. p. 400, 7Vb. 287. LATHAM, n, 462. 

 CATESBY, i, 60. Mitred Warbler > TURTON, i, 601. Hooded 

 Warbler, Ibid. PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 7062.* 



WHY those two judicious naturalists, Pennant and Latham, 

 should have arranged this bird with the Warblers is to me unac- 

 countable; as few of the Muscicapse are more distinctly marked 

 than the species now before us. The bill is broad at the base, 

 where it is beset with bristles; the upper mandible notched, and 

 slightly overhanging at the tip; and the manners of the bird, in 

 every respect, those of a Flycatcher. This species is seldom 

 seen in Pennsylvania and the northern states; but through the 

 whole extent of country south of Maryland, from the Atlantic 

 to the Mississippi, is very abundant. It is however most par- 

 tial to low situations, where there is plenty of thick underwood; 

 abounds among the canes in the state of Tennessee, and in the 

 Mississippi territory; and seems perpetually in pursuit of win- 

 ged insects; now and then uttering three loud not unmusical 

 and very lively notes, resembling twee, twee, twitchie, while 

 engaged in the chase. Like almost all its tribe it is full of spirit, 

 and exceedingly active. It builds a very neat and compact nest, 

 generally in the fork of a small bush, forms it outwardly of moss 

 and flax, or broken hemp, and lines it with hair, and sometimes 

 feathers; the eggs are five, of a grayish white, with red spots 



* We add the following synonymes: Motacilla mitrata, GMEL. T, p. 977. 

 Sylvia mitrata, LATH. Ind. Orn. ir, p. 528. YIEIIL. Ois. de I'Jim. Sept. pi. 77. 

 Sylvia cuculata, LATH. Ind. Orn. n, p. 528. 



