HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
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have found, that the Muscicapa olivacea, and the soft and tender song- 
ster he mentions, are two very distinct species ; and that both the one 
and the other actually 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 nearly in the same manner, and is distinguishable only by the 
greater obscurity of the colors. 
Species XIII. MUSCICAPA CUCULLATA. 
HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XXVI. Fig. 3.] 
Le Gobe-mouche citrin, Buffon, iv., 538. PL 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 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 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, twitclvie, while engaged in the chase. Like almost all its tribe 
* We add the following synonymes : — Motacilla mitrata, Gmel. i., p. 977. — Sylvia 
mitrata, Lath. hid. Orn. n., p. 528. — Vieill. Ois. d' Am. Sept. pi. 77. — Sylvia cucu- 
lata, Lath. hid. Orw. n., p. 528. 
