HOODED FLYCATCHER. 149 



have found, that the Muscieapa olivacea, and the soft and tender song- 

 ster he mentions, are two very distinct species ; and that both the one 

 and the other actua,lly build very curious pendulous nests. 



This species is five inches and a half long, and seven inches in extent ; 

 crown ash, slightly tinged with olive, bordered on each side with a line 

 of black, below which is a line of white passing from the nostril over 

 and a little beyond the eye ; the bill is longer than, usual with birds of 

 its tribe, the upper mandible overhanging the lower considerably and 

 notched, dusky above, and light blue below ; all the rest of the plumage 

 above is of a yellow olive, relieved on the tail and at the tips of the 

 wings with brown ; chin, throat, breast and belly pure white ; inside of 

 the wings and vent feathers greenish yellow ; the tail is very slightly 

 forked ; legs and feet light blue ; iris of the eye red. The female is 

 marked nea^rly in the same manner, and is distinguishable only by the 

 greater obscurity of the colors. ' 



Species XIII. MUSCIOAPA CUCULLATA. 



-HOODED FLYCATCHEE. 



[Plate XXVI. Fig. 3.] 



Le Oobe-mouehe citrin, Buffon, iv., 538.- PI. Enl. 666. — Hooded Warbler, Arct. 

 Zool. p. 400, No. 287. — Latham, ii., 462.— Catesby, i., 60. — Mitred Warbler^ 

 TuRToN, I., 601. Hooded Warbler, Ibid.* 



Why those two judicious naturalists. Pennant and Latham, should 

 have arranged this bird with the Warblers is to me unaccountable ; as 

 few of the Muscicapoe are more distinctly marked than the species now 

 before us. The bill is broad at the base, where it is beset with bristles ; 

 the upper mandible notched, and slightly overhanging at the tip ; and 

 the manners of the bird, in every respect, those of a Flycatcher. This 

 species is seldom seen in Pennsylvania and the Northern States ; but 

 through the whole extent of country south of Maryland, from the 

 Atlantic to the Mississippi, is very abundant. It is however most par- 

 tial to low situations, where there is plenty of thick underwood ; abounds 

 among the canes in the state of Tennessee, and in the Mississippi terri- 

 tory ; and seems perpetually in pursuit of winged insects ; now and then 

 uttering three loud not unmusical and very lively notes, resembling 

 twee, twee, twitcJiie, while engaged in the chase. Like almost all its tribe 



* We add the following synonymes : — Motadlla mitrata, Gmel. i., p. 977. — Sylvia 

 mitraia, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii., p. 528. — Vieill. Ois. d' Am. Sept. pi. 77. — Sylvia cucu- 

 lata, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii., p. 528. 



