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fully determined to make him drop his prey. The pursuit continued thus 

 until the birds were quite out of my sight!" 



This species, like many of its delicate tribe, appears to suffer so much from 

 occasional cold, that, although at all other times a shy and wary bird, when 

 chilly weather surprises it, it becomes at once careless of its safety. On such 

 occasions I have approached them near enough to touch them with my gun. 

 By the middle of September they all retire farther south. 



Hooded Flycatcher, Muscicapa cucullata, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 101. 

 Sylvia mitrata, Bonap. Syn., p. 79. 



Hooded Warbler, Sylvia mitrata, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 66. Adult Male and Fe- 

 male; vol. v. p. 465. 

 Selby's Flycatcher, Muscicapa Selbyii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 46. Young. 



Third quill longest, second longer than fourth, which slightly exceeds the 

 first; tail slightly emarginate and rounded. Male with the forehead, sides 

 of the head, breast, sides, abdomen, lower wing and tail coverts rich pure 

 yellow; hind head and neck all round black; upper parts yellowish-olive; 

 wings and tail dusky brown, margined with yellowish-olive, an oblique patch 

 of white on the inner webs of the three outer tail-coverts. Female with the 

 forehead, the sides of the head, the throat, and all the lower parts yellow, the 

 hind part of the head dusky, the upper part as in the male. Young similar 

 to the female, but with the tints a little duller. 



Male, 5|, 8. 



From Texas to Virginia. In the interior, as far as Memphis on the Mis- 

 sissippi. Rather common. Migratory. 



THE CANADA FLYCATCHER. 



-i-Myiodioctes Canadensis, Linn. 



PLATE LXXII Male and Female. 



What a beautiful object, in the delightful season of spring, is our Great 

 Laurel, covered with its tufts of richly, yet delicately, coloured flowers! In 

 imagination I am at this moment rambling along the banks of some murmur- 

 ing streamlet, overshadowed by the thick foliage of this gorgeous ornament 

 of our mountainous districts. Methinks I see the timid trout eyeing my 

 movements from beneath his rocky covert, while the warblers and other syl- 



