240 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



*684. Wilsonia mithata (Gmel.). Hooded Warbler. 



Sylvia mitrata. Setophaga mitrata. Sylvania mitrata. Myiodiocte$ 

 mitratus. Muscicapa cucullata. Muscicapa selbii (female). 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States and southern Ontario' 

 north to Connecticut, central Michigan, southeastern Wisconsin, 

 southeastern Nebraska; west to eastern Kansas. Breeds from 

 Louisiana east and northward. Winters from eastern Mexico 

 to Panama. 



In Missouri a common summer resident in the southeast, 

 fairly common in the Ozarks, Ozark border and in the bluff as 

 well as bottom lands of the. Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, 

 at least as far up as East Leavenworth, Platte Co., where ob- 

 served by Audubon, May 4, 1843, and by the writer in June 

 1906. Rare in the prairie region north and west, where suitable 

 localities are getting scarcer and scarcer with the removal of all 

 tree growth from creek and river bottoms. That the species, 

 a denizen of the forest, seems unable to change its habits to con- 

 form to the present state of civilization is deplorable, as the bird 

 would be a most desirable ornament to our parks and gardens, 

 being not only one of the most beautiful birds, but also a fine 

 songster. In the southeast its arrival in spring is much earlier 

 than farther north and has been noticed in Dunklin Co., April 

 2, 1897, when singing males were already present. At St. 

 Louis the first songs are heard between April 17 and 25, oftenest 

 April 24, and the females arrive from April 28 to 30. At our 

 northern boundary it arrives in the first week in May. Its cheer-, 

 ful song is heard nearly throughout its sojourn, even to its de- 

 parture in the latter part of September (September 20, 1897, 

 St. Charles Co., September 28, 1895, Dunklin Co.). 



685. Wilsonia pusilla (Wils.). Wilson's Warbler. 



Muscicapa pusilla. Sylvania pusilla. Myiodioctes pusiMus. Sylvia wil- 

 sonii. Setophaga wilsonii. Myiodioctes wilsonii. Sylvia wilsonii. Wil- 

 son's Blackcap. Black-capped Warbler. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, north to Newfoundland, 

 Labrador, Hudson Bay and Athabasca; west to eastern edge 

 of Great Plains. Breeds from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 Maine, northern Minnesota, and Manitoba northward and winters 

 on the Atlantic slope of Central America from Guatemala to 

 Costa Rica; no record from South Atlantic and Gulf coast 

 between South Carolina and Texas. 



