HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
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towards the great end. In all parts of the United States, where, 
it inhabits, it is a bird of passage. At Savannah I met with it 
about the twentieth of March; so that it probably retires to the 
West India islands, and perhaps Mexico, during winter. I also 
heard this bird among the rank reeds and rushes within a few 
miles of the mouth of the Mississippi. It has been sometimes 
seen in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia; but rarely; and on 
such occasions has all the mute timidity of a stranger, at a dis- 
tance from home. 
This species is five inches and a half long, and eight in extent; 
forehead, cheeks and chin yellow, surrounded with a hood of 
black that covers the crown, hind head, and part of the neck, 
and descends, rounding, over the breast; all the rest of the lower 
parts are rich yellow; upper parts of the wings, the tail and 
back, yellow olive; interior vanes and tips of the wing and tail 
dusky; bill black; legs flesh coloured; inner webs of the three 
exterior tail feathers white for half their length from the tips; 
the next slightly touched with white; the tail slightly forked, 
and exteriorly edged with rich yellow olive. 
The female has the throat and breast yellow, slightly tinged 
with blackish; the black does not reach so far down the upper 
part of the neck, and is not of so deep a tint. In the other parts 
of her plumage she exactly resembles the male. I have found 
some females that had little or no black on the head or neck 
above; but these I took to be young birds, not yet arrived at 
their full tints. 
