1. M. mitratus. Head and neck black. Front, cheeks, and under parts yellow. Back olive-green. Hab. Eastern Province of United States, south to Panama and West Indies.
2. M. minutus. Olive above; yellowish beneath. Two white bands on the wings. Hab. Eastern United States.
B. Tail without white patch on the outer feathers.
3. M. pusillus. Crown black. Forehead, cheeks, and under parts yellow. Back olive.
Yellow of forehead without an orange tinge; upper parts dull olive-green; pileum with very dull steel-blue lustre. Hab. Eastern Province and Rocky Mountains of North America, south to Costa Rica. … var. pusillus.
Yellow of forehead with an orange cast; upper parts bright yellowish-green; pileum with a bright steel-blue lustre. Hab. Pacific Province of North America, from Sitka to Costa Rica … var. pileolata.
4. M. canadensis. Streaks on the crown, stripes on sides of head and neck, with pectoral collar of streaks, black. Rest of under parts, and line to and around the eye, yellow. Back bluish. Hab. Eastern Province of United States, south to Ecuador.
HOODED WARBLER.
Motacilla mitrata, Gmelin, S. N. I, 1788, 293. Sylvia m. Lath.; Vieill.; Bon.; Nutt.; Aud. Orn. Biog. II, pl. cx. Sylvicola m. Max. Sylvania m. Nuttall, Man. I, 1840, 333. Setophaga m. Jard. Wilsonia m. Bon. 1838.—Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. 1864. Myiodioctes m. Aud. Syn. 1839, 48.—Ib. Birds Am. II, pl. lxxi.—Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 291 (Cordova); 1858, 358 (Honduras).—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 292; Rev. 239.—Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 1859, 26 (March).—Sclater & Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 11 (Guatemala).—Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Lyc. VIII, 63 (Panama R. R.).—Gundlach, Cab. Jour. 1861, 326 (Cuba).—Samuels, 245. Myioctonus m. Cab. Mus. Hein. 1851.—Ib. Jour. Orn. III, 1855, 472 (Cuba). Muscicapa cucullata, Wilson, III, pl. xxvi, fig. 3. Muscicapa selbyi, Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pl. ix.