176 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Genus ICTERIA Vieillot,. 1807. 



Icteria virens (Linnseus). Yellow-breasted Chat. 



Turdus virens Linn^us, S. N., ed. 10, I, 1758, 171. 



Icteria viridis Bonapahtb, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, IV, 



1825, 252. 

 Icteria virens Baibd, Review Amer. Birds, April, 1865, 228. 

 Popular synonym. Yellow Mockingbibd. 



The Yellow-breasted Chat is a not uncommon summer resi- 

 dent, breeding in the heavy shrubbery in parts of our area. It 

 arrives early in May, and departs about the last of August. In 

 certain portions of Cook County, Mr. J. Grafton Parker and my- 

 self have found this species breeding quite plentifully. 



The range of this Warbler is the United States east of the 

 Great Plains. It breeds from the Gulf of Mexico northward to 

 Ontario and southern New England, and it winters through east- 

 ern Mexico, and Central America to Costa Rica. 



Genus WILSONIA Bonaparte, 1838. 



Wilsonia mitrata (Gmelin). Hooded Warbler. 



MotacUla mitrata Gmelin, S. N., I., pt. ii, 1788, 977. 



Syhiia mitrata Latham, Ind. Orn., II, 1790, 528. 



Myiodioctes mitrata Audubon, Birds Amer., Oct., ed. ii, 1€41, 12, 

 , pi. 71. 



Muscicapa selbyii AunuBON, Orn. Biog., I, 1831, 46, pi. 9. 



Sylvania mitrata NuTTALL, Man., ed. 2, I, 1840, 333. 



Wilsonia mitrata Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 23. 



Popular synonyms : Hooded Fltcatchinq Waeblee. Selbt's Wab- 

 bles. Black-headed Waebleb. Miteed Wabblee. Black-cap 

 Waeblee. 



The Hooded Warbler is a rare migrant at the present time, 

 and the only records of its occurrence within our limits are the 

 following: Mr. E. W. Nelson says: "A rare summer resident; 

 arriving May loth to 20th, and leaving early in autumn." On 

 May II, 1881, Mr. B. T. Gault took a specimen at River Forest, 

 Illinois. Mr. J. Grafton Parker, Jr., has the skin of a fine male 

 bird which was taken in Hyde Park, Chicago, on April 28, 1884, 

 by a boy who shot it with a sling-shot. In an article on the migra- 

 tions of the Hooded Warbler,* Mr. W. W. Cooke reports this 

 species as having been taken at Chicago on March 28, 1884, and 

 on May 3, 1895. 



The range of the Hooded Warbler covers the United States 

 from Massachusetts, southern Ontario, southern Michigan and 



*Bird Lore,, Vol. VI, No. 1, Jannary-Febmary, 1904. 



