HO ODED EL YCA TCHER. 389 



States ; where it is doubtful whether they be not mere pas- 

 sengers in spring and autumn. 



This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in 

 extent ; front, black ; crown, dappled with small streaks of 

 grey and spots of black ; line from the nostril to and around 

 the eye, yellow ; below the eye, a streak or spot of black, 

 descending along the sides of the throat, which, as well as the 

 breast and belly, is brilliant yellow, the breast being marked 

 with a broad rounding band of black, composed of large 

 irregular streaks ; back, wings, and tail, cinereous brown ; 

 vent, white ; upper mandible, dusky ; lower, flesh coloured ; 

 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 colours differ from those 

 of the male. 



HOODED FLYCATCHER (3Iuscicapa cucullata.) 



PLATE XXVI.— Fig. 3. 



Le gobe-mouebe citrin, Buff. iv. 538, PL enl. 666. — Hooded "Warbler, Arct. Zool. 

 p. 400, No. 287.— Lath. ii. 462.— Gatesb. i. 60.-Mitred Warbler, Turton, i. 

 601. — Hooded "Warbler, Ibid.— Peak's Museum, No. 7062. 



SETOPHAGA MITBATA.- Swainson. 

 Sylvia mitrata, Bonap. Synop. p. 79. 



Why those two judicious naturalists, Pennant and Latham, 

 should have arranged this bird with the warblers, is to me 

 unaccountable, as few of the muscicapce 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 partial to low situations, where there is plenty 

 of thick underwood ; abounds among the canes in the state 



