254 HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
being marked with a broad, rounding band of bla k, composed of 
large, irregular streaks ; back, wings, and tail, cinereous brown ; vent, 
white ; upper mandible, dusky ; lower, flesh colored; legs and feet, 
the same ; eye, hazel. 
Never having met with the female of this bird, I am unable, at 
present, to say in what its colors differ from those of the male. 
a 
HOODED FLYCATCHER. —MUSCICAPA CUCULLATA. — 
Fic. 122. 
Le gobe-mouche citrin, Buff. iv. 538, Pi. enl. 666. — Hooded Warbler, Arct. Zool. 
p. 400, No. 287. — Lath. ii. 462. — Catesb. i. 60. — Mitred Warbler, Turton, i. 
601.— Hooded Warbler, ibid. — Peale’s Museum, No. 7062. 
SETOPHAGA MITRATA. —Swatnson. 
Sylvia mitrata, Bonap. Synop. p.79. 
Wry those two judicious naturalists, Pennant and Latham, should 
have arranged this bird with the Warblers, is to me unaccountable, as 
few of the Muscicape are more distinctly marked than the species now 
before us. The bill is broad at the base, where it is beset with bris- 
tles; 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 
partial to low situations, where there is plenty of thick underwood ; 
abounds among the canes in the state of Tennessee, and in the Mis- 
sissippi Territory ; and seems perpetually in pursuit of winged insects; 
now and then uttering three loud, not unmusical, and very lively notes, 
resembling twee, twee, twitchie, while engaged in the chase. Like al- 
most all its tribe, it is full of spirit, and coe aa active. It builds 
a very neat and compact nest, generally in the fork of a small bush; 
forms it outwardly of moss and flax, or broken hemp, and lines it with 
hair, and sometimes feathers; the eggs are five, of a grayish white, 
with red spots towards the great end. In all parts of the United 
States where it inhabits, it is a bird of passage. At Savannah, I met 
with it about the 20th of March; so that it probably retires to. the 
West India Islands, and perhaps Mexico, during winter. I also 
heard this bird,among the rank reeds and rushes, within a few miles 
of the mouth of the Mississippi. It has been sometimes seen in the 
neighborhood of Philadelphia, but rarely ; and, on such occasions, has 
all the mute timidity of a stranger at a distance from home. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and eight in extent; 
forehead, cheeks, and chin, yellow, surrounded with a hood of black 
that covers the crown, hind head, and part of the neck, and descends, 
rounding, over the breast; all the rest of the lower parts are rich yel- 
