8. Myiodioctes mitratus, (Gmelin) Audubon. Hooded Warbler. — 
Mr. C. Hart Merriam, in his late “Review of the Birds of Connecticut” 
(pp. 25 and 29), rectifies an error in the recent descriptions of the females 
of this species. I wish to add my testimony to his conclusions, “ that the 
female bird, like the male, is several years — at least three — in attaining 
its full plumage ; and that the two sexes, when fully adult, can only be 
distinguished by the fact that, in the female, the throat, though strongly 
tinged with black, is never pure Hack as in the male.” Long ago I dis- 
covered these facts, as the bird is an abundantly breeding summer resi- 
dent here, where I have taken several of their nests in a single walk. 
With a large series of specimens before me, I can fully indorse Mr. 
Merriam’s views. The females of the second summer are entirely with- 
out any black upon the head, and I have frequently found them sitting 
upon their eggs in this condition. Males of the same age show very evi- 
dent traces of black. Only in extreme examples does the black on the 
hood and throat of the female approach the purity of those parts in the 
male. 
Bull. N.O.O. 8 1 April, 1878, p. J 1 . 
IIoodkd Warbler in Western New York. — This beautiful spe- 
cies has been noted as of not uncommon occurrence near liiverdale, N. Y. 
(Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. Ill, p. 130), and as of rare occurrence in 
Lewis County, N. Y. (Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. IV, p. 7). From nearly 
three months’ study of the bird in Northern Cayuga and Wayne Counties 
(N. Y.), we are able to give a pretty correct account of its occurrence in 
this section. We first met with the bird July 10, 1878, in the woods bor- 
dering the shore of Lake Ontario, near Fair Haven. Our attention was 
attracted by a loud alarm note, not unlike that of the Golden-crowned 
Thrush ( Siuvus auricapillus). We secured the female on the spot, the 
male not until the next day. From that time forward we found them in 
every suitable locality for miles around. The birds’ favorite' haunts ap- 
peared to be dense and solitary woods with tangled undergrowth, where 
fallen hemlock tops and other ddbris of the woods that mark decay 
are overgrown with various briery bushes. From our arrival in July 
until the time of their departure, they were in full song. In many cases 
we found single birds having two distinct songs. Often have we observed 
them singing one for some time, and then, as though tired of that, take up 
the other, sometimes alternating the two. 
July 25 we found their nest, containing three young and one egg. The 
next day we found a«seconcl nest, near which were three young, scarcely 
able to fly. The nests were placed in the forks of small saplings, near the 
ground, and were composed of hemp and grapevine fibres, lined with horse- 
hair. interspersed with feathers. 
The birds began moulting about the first week in August, but by the 
middle of September we obtained some fine specimens apparently recov- 
ered from this state. We secured female birds with the black gradating 
from a single spot to a full tracing of the hood. We also found young males 
of the year, with the black as dense and glossy, and the yellow as rich, as 
in the best adults; yet the little “spike tails” scarcely exceeded half an 
inch in length, and their peculiar plumage marked them as young. We 
observed this Warbler as late as September 20. when a few cold breezes 
from the lake drove them southward. — Samuel F. Ratiibun and Frank 
S. Wright, Auburn, N. Y. SullN.O.C. 4, April, 1879, p, //£-// 7. 
Arrivals of Mig’y Birds, Spring-- 1886 , 
Central Park, N. Y. City. A. G-. Paine, Jr. 
Some of my Best Finds to June 8, 1892. 
A.B.Kibbe. 
May 11, Sylvania mitrata , (084). Hooded 
Warbler. 
June 8. A set of four Hooded 
o.&o Vol. 17, Sept. 1892 p.134 
G.&O. XI. Aug. 1380. p. 125 
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