SYLVICOLIB^— 8ET0PHAGINJS : FLY-CATCHING WAFBLERS. 313 



to be described, four or five others maybe expected to occur over our Mexican border, — among 

 them the lovely CardeUina rubra, whicli is carmine red all over, with silky white ears ; Seto- 

 phaga miniata, very near S. picta : and species of the genus Basileiiterus. Our three genera 

 are readily distinguished, so far as our species are concerned, by coloration. 



Anali/si'i of GoH'i'a. 



(f Black, white, and orange; 9 t'™"'". ^1"'^, an<l yellow Setophaga, 40 



cf 9 Asby, white, and carmine or rosy red Cardelii)t<i 45 



(f $ Without brown, red, or orange Mijiodioctrs 44 



44. MYIODIOC'TES. (Gr. jima, miiia, a fly, and Siwktj/s-, dioldef!, a pursuer.) Fly-catciuxg 

 Warblers. BillMuscicapine, though with lateral outlines a little concave, broad and depres.'^ed 

 at base, with many obvious rictal bristles reaching decidedly beyond the nostrils ; cnlmen and 

 commissure nearly straight. Wings pointed, as in most Si/lvicolidte, longer than tail ; 1st quill 

 longer than 5th, 3d equalling or exceeding 4th. Tail narro\i', even or little rounded. Middle 

 toe \vithout claw ttbout three-fifths as long as tarsus. Tail unmarked, or with white blotches 

 as ui Dendrwca. No red or flame-color: always yeUow below. Comprehends three species, 

 well distinguished among Sylvicolidee by the development of tlic rictal 1 prist les and the depressed 

 shape of the bill, though these Muscicapine characters are not pushed to the extreme seen in 

 Setophaga. The tail is nan'ow, lacking the fan-shaped contour of that of Setophaga, and the feet 

 are stouter, with longer toes. In CardeUina, a near ally, the bill is naiTow and conoidal, some- 

 what Parine in appearance, with curved cubnen. In Basileuterus, and in fact in all the extra- 

 limital forms of the Fly-catching Warblers, the wing is rounded, with the 1st quill shorter than 



the 5th. 



Analysis of Specie's. 



Olive and yellow ; tail-feathers wliite-blotched mitratus 146 



Olive and yellow ; tall-feathers plain imsilhts 147 



Ashy-blue and yellow : tail-feathers plain canailensis 149 



146. M. mltra'tus. (Lat. ))MY)Y(ii(*-, wearing a mitre, or other head-dress. Fig. 173.) HooueiiFly- 

 CATCHiNc; AVarbler. (J, adult: Clear yeUow-olive above ; below, rich yellow, shaded with 



cdive along the sides; whole head and neck pure black, en- 

 ^'^■'""^KStSk^ closing a broad gcddeu mask across forehead and through eyes; 



wings unmarked, glossed with olive ; tail Muth large ^^'llite 

 blotches on the two or three outer pairs of feathers, as in 

 „ Demlrceca : bill black ; feet flesh -colored. Length 5.00-5.25 ; 



^"^' extent 8.50; wing about 2.75; tail about 2.25. 9, adult, 



and young <J, with the black restricted or interrupted, if not 

 wholly wanting, as it is in the earlier stages, when the parts 

 concerned are simply colored to correspond with the upper 

 Pig. 17.3. — Hooded "Warbler, nat. and under surfaces of the bird. Hood said to be not perfected 

 till tlie third year, and to be finally acquired, in the fulness 

 of its extent if not in the purity of the black, by the female. Eastern U. S., strictly; K. 

 regularly to the Connecticut Valley ; W. to Kansas ; migratory : breeds at large in its U. S. 

 range ; winters extralimital. A lovely bird, reminding one of the 

 Kentucky warbler, common in tlie south in such brakes and bottoms 

 as the Kentucky -liaunts, rarer northward. Nest in bushes ; eggs 4, 

 about 0.70 X 0.50, as usual white, reddish-sprinkled. ^^g^^WSfe iXV?*'^ 



147. M. pusil'lus. (Lat. 2™sil!i<s, puerile, petty, small. Fig. 174.) 

 Black-capped Fly-catchinu Warbler. <?, aduh : Upper 

 parts, including exposed edgings of the wings and tail, briglit yel- ^ii>'^^ 

 lowish-olive ; under parts, including front and sides of the head Fia- 174. — Black-capped 

 and superciliary line, rich yelk.w, shaded with olive on the sides. A L"e. c'. r*"*' '''"'' '*^'^'"''' 



