HOODED WARBLER. 279 
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around the greater end, leaving the remaining surface immaculate, 
Their average measurement is .90 by .68. 
Sub-family SETOPHAGIN AL. Fry-catcHinc WARBLERS. 
Bill depressed, decidedly broader than high at base, notched, and usually hooked, at 
tip. Rictus with long stiff bristles, reachii:g beyond the nostrils. 
GENUS MYIODIOCTES. Audubon. 
Rictal bristles reaching but little beyond nostrils. Wings longer than tail. Outer 
webs of exterior tail feathers narrow at base, widening at the tip. Middle toe, without 
claw, three fifths the tarsus. 
MytopIocTEs MITRATUS (Gm.) Aud. 
Htiooded M'ly-catching Warbler. 
Sylvania mitrata, READ, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 307; Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 
39d. 
Myiodioctes mitratus, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 292.—Wneaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 
for 1660, 364; Reprint, 1861, 16; Fuod of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1-74, 564; 
Reprint, 1875, 4—Covurs, Birds N. W., 1874, 78 —Barrp, BREWER and RiDGWAY, 
N. A. Birds, 1, 1874, 314.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6; Revised List, Journ 
Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1679, 173; Reprint, 7—JoRDAN, Man. Vert., 1878, 69. 
Hooded Warbler, KirTLAND, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xiii, 1e52, 218. 
Moiacilla mitrata, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 977. 
Sylvania mitrata, NUTTALL, Man., 2d ed, i, 1840, 333. 
Myiodicctes mitratus, AUDUBON, Syn., 1839, 48. 
Clear yellow-olive ; below rich yellow shaded along the sides, whole head and neck 
pure black, enclosing a broad golden mask across forehead and through eyes; wings un- 
marked, glossed with olive; tail with large white blotches on the two outer pairs of 
feathers; bill black; feet fltsh color. Female with no black on the head} that of the 
crown replaced by olive, that of the throat by yellow. Young male with the black 
much restricted and interrupted, if not wholly wanting, asin the female. Length, 5-54; 
wing, about 22; tail, about 22. 
Habitat, Eastern United States, rather southerly; north to the Connecticut Valley, 
casually to Lewis county, N. Y. (Merriam); west to Kansas; south to Mexico and Cen- 
tral America. West Indies. 
Rare summer resident, apparently in restricted localities only. Dr. 
Kirtland notices its breeding in the vicinity of Cleveland. Mr. Read took 
a single specimen in Ashtabula county. Mr. Langdon gives it as a rare 
migrant in May. Mr. Dury tells me he has taken two or three speci- 
mens, and saw others. I have taken but two specimens, a young male 
August 25, 1874, and an adult female May 21, 1875. The young male 
was in a stage of plumage which has not been described: above, ycllow- 
- Olive, concealed yellow from bill to eyes; feathers of crown and occiput 
with dark plumbeous bases and centies, some of the feathers of sides of 
