282 BIRDS — SYLVICOLIDJE, 



Muscicapa canadensis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 327. 

 Sylnla pardalina, Bonaparte, Joarn. Phila. Acad., iv, 18^4, 179. 

 Syhicola pardalina, Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1833, 23. 

 Myiodiootes canadensis, Audubon, Syn., 1839, 40. 



Bluish ash ; crown speckled with lanceolate black marks, crowded and generally con- 

 tinuous on the forehead; the latter divided lengthwise by a slight yellow line; short 

 superciliary line and edges of eyelids yellow; lores black, continuous with black under 

 the eye, and this passing »s a chain of black streaks down the side of the neck, and 

 prettily encircling the throat like a necklace ; excepting these streaks and the white 

 under tail coverts, the entire under parts are clear yellow ; wings and tail unmarked ; 

 feet flesh-color. In the female and young the black is obscure or much restricted, and 

 the back may be sliglitly glossed with olive. Length about 5J ; wing 2'| ; tail 2J. 



Habitat, Eastern North America; south to Mexico, Central America, and Ecuador; 

 west to the Plains. 



Rather common migrant in spring; more rare in fall. Arrives about 

 the middle of May and returns in September. The habits of this species 

 are not essentially different from those of the two preceeding species, ex- 

 cept that while with us it appears to be more decidedly arboreal. I have 

 almost invariably found it well up in the branches of trees, and never 

 about low bushes. I have never seen it in the fall, but Mr. Langdon 

 records its capture in September. A spring specimen in my collection 

 has the black necklace very faint or obsolete. 



The Canada Fly-catcher breeds from Massachusetts northward. The 

 nest is described by Dr. Brewer as placed in a tussock of grass in a swamp. 

 It is large for the size of the bird, and composed of fibres oi bark, leaves, 

 and rootlets. The eggs are fi.ve, white, "'beautifully marked with dots 

 and small blotches of blended brown, purple, and violet, varying in 

 shades and tints, and grouped in a wreath around the larger end." 



Genus SETOPHAGA. Swainson. 



Bill much depressed. Kictal bristles reaching half way from nostrils to tip. Wings 

 equal to tail. External tail feathers as in Myiodiootes, Tarsi long ; toes short ; middle 

 toe without claw about half the tarsus. 



Setophaga EDTICILLA (L.) Sw. 

 Hedstart. 

 Muscicapa ruticilla, Kirtland, Ohio Geclog Surv., 1838, 163. 



Setophaga ruiicilla, Kead, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 367 ; Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 

 1853, 395.— Baird, P. R. R. Rep , ix, 1858, 298.— Whkaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 

 1860, 364 ; Reprint, 1861, 6 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1874, 564 ; Re- 

 print, 1875, 4. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6 ; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soe. 

 Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 173 ; Reprint, 7.— Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 113. 



Muscicapa ruticilla, LiNNiEUS, Syst. Ifat., 1766, 326. 

 Setophaga ruticilla, Swainson, Zool. Journ., iil, 1827, 360. 



