SYLVICOLID^ — SETOFHAGIN^: FLY-CATCHING WABBLEBS. 313 
to be described, four or five others may be expected to occur over our Mexican border, — among 
them the lovely CardeUina rubra, which is carmine red all over, with silky white ears ; Seto- 
phaga miniata, very near S. picta; and species of the genus Basileuterus. Our three genera 
are readily distinguished, so far as our species are concerned, by coloration. 
Analysis of Genera. 
^ Black, white, and orange; $ brown, white, and yellow Setophaga 46 
9 Ashy, white, and carmine or rosy red CardeUina 45 
9 Witliout brown, red, or orange Myiodioctes 44 
MYIODIOC'TES. (Gr. /xvta, muia, a fly, and StcoKr?;?, dioJctes, a pursuer.) Fly-catching 
Warblers. BillMuscicapine, though with lateral outlines a little concave, broad and depressed 
at base, with many obvious rictal bristles reaching decidedly beyond the nostrils ; culmen and 
commissure nearly straight. Wings pointed, as in most Sylvicolidce, longer than tail; 1st quill 
longer than 5th, 3d equalling or exceeding 4th. Tail narrow, even or little rounded. Middle 
toe without claw about three-fifths as long as tarsus. Tail unmarked, or with white blotches 
as in Dendrosca. No red or flame-color : always yellow below. Comprehends three species, 
well distinguished among Sylvicolidce by the development of the rictal bristles and the depressed 
shape of the bill, though these Muscicapine characters are not pushed to the extreme seen in 
Setophaga. The tail is narrow, lacking the fan-shaped contour of that of Setophaga, and the feet 
are stouter, with longer toes. In CardeUina, a near ally, the bill is narrow and conoidal, some- 
what Parine in appearance, with curved culmen. In Basileuterus, and in fact in all the extra- 
limital forms of the Fly-catching Warblers, the wing is rounded, with the 1st quill shorter than 
the 5th. 
Analysis of Species. 
Olive and yellow ; tail-feathers white-blotched mitrafus 146 
Olive and yellow ; tail-feathers plain pusillus 147 
Ashy-blue and yellow : tail-feathers plain canadensis 149 
M. mitra'tus. (Lat. wearing a mitre, or other head-dress. Fig. 173.) Hooded Fly- 
CATCHiNG Warbler. ^, adult: Clear yellow-olive above; below, rich yellow, shaded with 
olive along the sides; whole head and neck pure black, en- 
closing a broad golden mask across forehead and through eyes; 
kt»^ " -^^^^^^^ wings unmarked, glossed with olive ; tail with large white 
blotches on the two or three outer pairs of feathers, as in 
Bendrceca; bill black ; feet flesh -colored. Length 5.00-5.25 ; 
extent 8.50; wing about 2.75; tail about 2.25. 9? adult, 
and young with the black restricted or interrupted, if not 
wholly wanting, as it is in the earlier stages, when the parts 
concerned are simply colored to correspond with the ujtper 
Fig. 173.— Hooded Warbler, nat. and under surfaces of the bird. Hood said to be not perfected 
size. (Ad nat. del. E. c.) ^.j^ ^1^^ ^^^^^ yesiT, and to be finally acquired, in the fulness 
of its extent if not in the purity of the black, by the female. Eastern U. S., strictly; N. 
regularly to the Connecticut Valley ; W. to Kansas ; migratory ; breeds at large in its U. S. 
range ; ^'inters extralimital. A lovely bird, reminding one of the 
Kentucky warbler, common in the south in such brakes and bottoms 
as the Kentucky haunts, rarer northward. Nest in bushes ; eggs 4, ' \^ 
about 0.70 X 0.50, as usual white, reddish -sprinkled. " ^vK^^ 
M. pusillus. (Lat. pusillus, puerile, petty, small. Fig. 174.) 
Black-capped Fly-catching Warbler. adult: Upper 
parts, including exposed edgings of the wings and tail, briglit yel- 
lowish-olive ; under parts, including front and sides of the head ^^r^l?'^'^^ ~^^^''\T^^^'} 
. , , * Warbler, nat. Size. (Adnat. 
and superciliary line, rich yellow, shaded with olive on the sides. A del. E. C.) 
