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probably these latter that stop at Cuba and Jamaica in their northward journey in the 

 month of April. In Guatemala it resorts chiefly to the thick second-growth woods, 

 keeping to the underwood rather than the larger trees. It is of restless habits, con- 

 stantly jerking open its wings and tail. 



The summer quarters of M. mitratus are restricted to the more southern of the 

 eastern States ; and here it breeds, making a nest in oak bushes four or five feet from the 

 ground. This is constructed outwardly of dry leaves and coarse grass, and lined with 

 horse-hair, pine-leaves, and slender grass. The eggs, usually four in number, are 

 described as white, with spots of a fine red, and a few markings of a subdued purple ^i. 



3. Myiodioctes pnsillus. 



Muscicapa pusilla, Wils. Am. Orn. iii. p. 103, t. 36. f. 4\ 



Myiodioctes pusillus,^c\.V.7^.S.\B>56,^.29V ; 1858, p. 299'; 1859, pp. 363 *, 374 ' j Scl.&Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 11% Baird, U. S. Bound. Surv. ii. Birds, p. 10"; K,ev. Am. B. i. p. 240'; Cab. 



J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 325 ' ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 478 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. H. ix. p. 95 '' ; 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 270"; Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 294"; Sumichrast, Mem. 



Bost. Soc. N. H. 1. p. 547"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 183 ''; Duges, La Natur. i. p. 140"; 



Baird, Brew. & Bidgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 317"; Coues, B. Col. Vall. i. p. 326". 

 Sylvia petasodes, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2 (cf. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 57"). 

 Motacilla pileolata, PaU. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 497 ^°. 

 Myiodioctes pusillus, var. pileolatus, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 319^'; Lawr. Bull. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 16=". 



Supra olivaceus, alia et eauda fuscis olivaceo extus limbatis; capite summo nitente nigro; fronte, capitis 

 lateribus et corpore toto subtus flavis, hypocbondriis olivaceo indutis ; rostro maxilla cornea, mandibula 

 camea ; pedibus paUide coryllinis. Long, tota 4-4, alee 2-2, caudsB 2-0, tarsi 0-73, rostri a rictu 0-45. 

 (Descr. maris ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



2 mari simUis, pUeo dorso concolori. 



Hob. NoETH America generally, Arizona is, Texas lO— Mexico {Salle ^), Monterey 

 (Couch''), Guadalajara and Tepic {Grayson'^% Colima [Xantus^^), Guanajuato 

 {l>ughs^% Santuario {Bepjpe^^), Mirador {Sartonus% Velasco and Apam {le 

 Strange), Jalapa [de Oca% Orizaba {Sumichrast ^% Oaxaca (Fenochio), La Parada^, 

 Totontepec^ and Villa Alta^ (Boucard), Guichicovi {Sumichrast ^^) ; Guatemala, 

 Duefias^, San Geronimo, Coban {0. S. <& F. B. G.); Costa Rica, Barranca and 

 Grecia {Carmiol n), San Jose ii and Volcan de Poas i3 («. Frantzius), Irazu {Sogers), 

 Orosi (Kramer) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (ArcS ^^). 



Mr. Eidgway 21 recognizes two races of this bird :— one inhabiting the Pacific coast- 

 region of North America, and southwards to Western Mexico and Costa Eica, to which 

 he applies Pallas's name pileolatus 20 ; and the other Eastern North America and 

 Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Eica, to which Wilson's name pusillus 1 is applicable. 

 The former is distinguished by the greater richness of the yellow of its plumage, the 



