HOODED WARBLER. ' 279 



around the greater end, leaving the remaining suifj.ce immaculate^ 

 Their average measurement is .90 by .68. 



Suh-famUy SETOFHAGINM. Fly-catching Warblees. 



Bill depressed, decidedly broader than high at base, notched, and usually hooked, at 

 tip. Rictus with long stilf bristles, reaching beyond the nostrils. 



Gknus MYIODIOCTES. Audubon. 



Rictal bristles reaching but little beyond nostrils. Wings longer than tail. Ooler 

 ■webs of exterior tail feathers narrow at base, widening at the tip. Middle toe, withijut 

 claw, three fifths the tarsus. 



Myiodioctes miteatus (Gm.) Aud. 



Hooded Fly-catching "Warbler. 



Sylvania miirata, Read, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 3S7; Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Soi., vi, 1853, 

 395. 



Myiodioctes mitraius, Baied, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 18.58, 292. — Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 

 for 1860, 364 ; Reprint, 1861, 16; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep, for 1-^74, 564; 

 Reprint, 1875, 4. — COUES, Birds N. W., 1874, 78, — Baird, Brkwer and Bidgway, 

 N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 314.— Lakgdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; R3vi=ed List, Journ 

 Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1679, 173; Reprint, 7.— Jordan, Man. Vert., 1878, 69. 



Hooded Warbler, Kirtland, Am. Journ. Soi. and Arts, xiii, 1852, 218. 



Mofacilla miirata, Gmhlin, Syst. Jv'at., i, 1788, 977. 

 Siilvania mitrata, Nuttall, Man., 2d ed , i, 1840, 333. 

 Myiodioctes mitratus, Audubon, Syn., 1839, 48. 



Clear yellow-olive ; below rich yellow shaded along the sides, whole head and neck 

 pure black, enclosing a broad golden mask across forehead and through eyes; wings un- 

 marked, glossed with olive; tail with largo white blotchfs on the two outer pairs of 

 feathers; bill black; feet flesh color. Female with no black on the head ; that of the 

 crown replaced by olive, that of the throat by yellow. Young male with the black 

 much restricted and interrupted, if not wholly wanting, as in the female. Length, 5-5^ ; 

 wing, abont SJ; tail, abnut 2 J. 



Habitat, Eastern United States, rather southerly ; noith to the Connecticut Vallfty, 

 casually to Lewis county, N. Y. (Jferciom) ; west to Kansas; south to Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America. West Indies. 



Rare summer resident, apparently in. restricted localities only. Dr. 

 Kirtland notices its breeding in the vicinity of Cleveland. Mr. Read took 

 a single specimen in Ashtabula county. Mr. Langdon gives it as a rare 

 migrant in May. Mr. Dury tells me he has taken two or three speci- 

 mens, and saw others. I have taken but two specimens, a young male 

 August 25, 1874, and an adult female May 21, 1875. The young male 

 was in a stage, of plumage which has not been described : above, yellow- 

 olive, concealed yellow from bill to eyes; feathers of crown and occiput 

 with dark plumbeous bases and centies, some of the feathers of sides of 



