HOODED FLYCATCHER. 
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This species is four inches and a half long, and eight in 
extent; front, black; crown, dappled with small streaks of 
gray and spots of black ; line from the nostril to and around 
the eye, yellow; below the eye, a streak or spot of black, 
descending along the sides of the throat, which, as well as the 
breast and belly, is brilliant yellow, the breast being marked 
with a broad rounding band of black, composed of large 
irregular streaks; back, wings, and tail, cinereous brown; 
vent, white ; upper mandible, dusky ; lower, flesh coloured : 
legs and feet, the same ; eye, hazel. 
Never having met with the female of this bird, I am 
unable, at present, to say in what its colours differ from those 
of the male. 
HOODED FLYCATCHER. — MUSCICAPA CUCULLATA. 
Plate XXVI. Fig. 3. 
Le gobe-mouche citrin, Buff. iv. 538, PI. enl. 666 Hooded Warbler, Arct. Zool. 
p. 400, No. 287. — Lath. ii. 462. — Catesb. i. 60 Mitred Warbler, Turton , i. 
601. — Hooded Warbler, Ibid. — Peale's Museum, No. 7062. 
SETOPHAGA MITRATA. — Swainson. 
Sylvia mitrata, Bonap. Synop. p. 79. 
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 partial to low situations, 
where there is plenty of thick underwood; abounds among 
the canes in the state of Tennesee, and in the Mississippi 
territory ; and seems perpetually in pursuit of winged insects ; 
