78 MYIODIOCTES MITKATUS, HOODED WARBLER. 



States; it breeds tbrougliout its United States range. It is very abun- 

 dant in suitable places in most portions of the Missouri region. Thus 

 Mr. Allen writes: "I never saw it in greater abundance than in and 

 about the woodlands of Eastern Kansas. At Topeka, during the last 

 half of May, it was especially numerous and noisy, several males being 

 almost constantly in view from a single point, hovering in the air in 

 their well-known manner over the low thickets that border the forests 

 along the Kaw River, engaged in musical rivalry. Further westward 

 they occur with more or less frequency along the streams wherever they 

 are skirted with thickets, and also along the partially wooded streams 

 that descend into the plains from the foot-hills of the Eocky Mountains, 

 as well as among the foot-hills up to about 7,800 feet. I also met with 

 them in the vicinity of Cheyenne, and at Ogden, Utah." 



MYIODIOCTES MITRATUS, (Gm.) Aud. 

 Hooiled Fly-catching Warbler. 



Motacilla mitmta, Gm., Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 977. 



Sylvia mitrata, Lath., IdcI. Orn. ii, 1790, .VjS. — VrEiix., Ois. Am. Sept. ii, 1807, 23, pi. 

 77.— Bp., Syu. 1828, 79.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 373.— AoD., Orn. Bio<r. ii, 1834, 68. 



Sylcania mitrala, Nutt., JIaii. i; 1840, 2cl ed. 333. — WoODH., Sitgr. Eey. 1853, 09 (Tuxas 

 and Indian Territory). 



Setojyhaga mitrata, .Tard., cd. Wils. 1832. — Gray, Genera of Birds. — D'Orbig., La Sagra'-s 

 Cuba, Ois. 1840, 89. 



misouia mitrata, Bp., List, 1838,23.— All., Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 17r. (Eastern Kansas).— 

 Allex, Pi-. Ess. lust, iv, 1864, 83 (Massacliusetts). — Allkx, Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 

 1868, 516 (Illinois). 



Myiodioctes mitratns, AuD., Svn. 1839, 4S. — Aud., B. Am. ii. 1841, 12, pi. 71. — Bp., Consp. 

 ■i, 1850, 315.-SCL., 'p. Z. S. 18.56, 2^1 (Cordova) ; 1858, 358 (Honduras) ; Cat. 

 1662, 33.— Bd., B. N. a. 1858, 292; Rev. 1805, 239.— ScL. & Salv., Ibis, 1359, 11 

 (Gnatemala).— .JoxK.s, Nat. Bevm. 1859, 26.— Gu.xdl., .T. f. 0. 1861, 326 (Cuba).— 

 Lawr., Ann. Lvc. \m, 63 (Panama). — Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860. — CoUES 

 & Prknt., Smiths. Rep. 1861, 409.— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 1866, 284 (near 

 New York, rare, breeding). — CouES, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, 1868, 275 (Massachusetts 

 and Connecticut). — CnUES, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 1868, 110 (South Carolina, mi- 

 gratory). — TuRxr.., B. E. Pa., 1869, 19 (rather rare). — Susiicn., Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 1, 1869i 547 (Orizaba).- Lawr., Ann. Lye. ix, 1869, 200 (Yucatan).— Snow, B. 

 Kans. 1873, 5.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 109, fig. 49. 



SijMcola mitrata, Maxiji., J. f. 0. vi, 1858, 113. 



Mi/ioctonua mitratns, Cab., Mns. Hein. 1850, 18 ; J. f. 0. iii, 1855, 472 (Cuba). 



Muscicajya cucullata, Wils., Am. Orn. iii, 1811, 101, jjI. 26, f. 3. 



ifuscicapa sdbyi, AuD., Orn. Biog. i, 1831, 46, pi. 9. — NuTr., Man. i, 1832, 296. 



Sab. — Eastern United States ; north to the Middle States regularly ; to Couuecticnt 

 {Linsley, Am. Journ. Sci. sliv, 1843, 257) and Massachusetts (Saviuels, App. Secy's Rep. 

 Agric. 1863. p. xxii) rarely. Ohio. West to Kansas (Coo^^C)-, .kZtoi). Bermudas. Cuba. 

 Jamaica. Eastern Mexico, and south to Panama. 



As will be seen by the foregoing, this is essentially a southern bird, 

 the northern limit of which falls short of the United States border. It 

 does not appear to winter anywhere within the United States, which it 

 enters in JIarch, and where it breeds throughout its range. I have 

 rarely met with it in the Atlantic States, where I consider it not com- 

 mon ; but it appears to be more plentiful in the Mississippi Valley. 

 Westward it has been noted in the Indian Territory by Dr. Woodhouse, 

 and in Kansas as far as Fort Leavenworth, which constitutes the limit 

 of its extension as now known, unless the Prince Maximilian's quota- 

 tion, which I have not verified, represents a locality beyond. It is not 

 noted by Mr. Trippe among the birds of Minnesota. Mr. W. D. Scott 

 found it common and breeding in Kanawha County, West Virginia 

 (Pr. Bost. Soc, Oct. 1872). 



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