SPECIES 13 . MUSCICAPA CUCULLATA. 
HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XXVI.— Fig. 3.] 
Le gobe-mouche citrin, Buffon, iv, 538. PL Enl. 666. — Hooded 
Warbler, Arct. Zool. p. 400, JVo. 287 . — Latham, ii, 462. — 
Catesby, I, 60. — Mitred Warbler, Tukton, i, 601. — Hooded 
Warbler, Ibid . — Pf.ale’s JlfMseMni, JSTo. 7062.* 
Why those two judicious naturalists, Pennant and Latham, 
should have arranged this bird with the Warblers is to me unac- 
countable; as few of the Muscicapse 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 territory; and seems perpetually in pursuit of win- 
ged insects; now and then uttering three loud not unmusical 
and very lively notes, resembling twee, twee, twitehie, while 
engaged in the chase. Like almost all its tribe it is full of spirit, 
and exceedingly active. It builds a very neat and compact nest, 
generally in the fork of a small bush, forms it outwardly of moss 
and flax, or broken hemp, and lines it with hair, and sometimes 
feathers; the eggs are five, of a grayish white, with red spots 
* We add the following synonymes: — Molacilla mitrata, Gmel. i, p. 977 . — 
Sylvia mitrata. Lath. Ind. Om. ir, p. 528. — Vieill. Ois. de I’ Am. Sept.pl. n. 
— Sylvia cuculala, Lath. dnd. Orn. ij, p. 528. 
