. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. SYLVICOLIDiE, WARBLERS. â GEN. 40. 109 Tyrannidce, they are at once distinguished from these clamatorial birds by the oscine character of the tarsi, and the presence of only nine primaries. V 40. Genus MYIODIOCTES Audubon. Hooded'Flycatcher. Clear yellow-olive, below rich yellow shaded along the sides, whole head aud neck pure black, enclosing


. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. SYLVICOLIDiE, WARBLERS. â GEN. 40. 109 Tyrannidce, they are at once distinguished from these clamatorial birds by the oscine character of the tarsi, and the presence of only nine primaries. V 40. Genus MYIODIOCTES Audubon. Hooded'Flycatcher. Clear yellow-olive, below rich yellow shaded along the sides, whole head aud 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, as in Dendroeca; bill black, feet flesh color. 9 with no black on the head ; that of the crown replaced by olive, that of the throat by yellow; young $ with] the black much restricted or interrupted, if not wholly wanting as in the 9 (3Iuscicapa selbyi Aud. Orn. Biog. i, 46, pi. 9). Length 5-5^-; wing about 2|, tail about 2^. Eastern United States, apparently not very common. Muscicapa cucidlala WiLS., iii. 101, pi. 26, f. 3; Nutt., i, 373; Aud., ii, 12, pi. 71; Bd., 292 mitratus. (jV Green Black-capped Flycatcher. Clear yellow-olive ; crown glossy blue- black ; forehead, sides of head and entire under parts bright yellow; wings and tail plain, glossed with olive ; ujjper mandible dark, under pale; feet brown; 9 and young similar, colors not so bright, the black cap obscure. Small ; 4f-5 ; 05. Fig. 49. Hooded Flycatcher. )V-o â i^^ Fig. 50. Green Black-capped Flycatcher. wing about 2^ ; tail about 2. North America, at large ; common. Wils., iii, 103, pi. 26, f. 4; Nutt., i, 408 ; Aud., ii, 21, pi. 75; Bd., 293 pusillus. Canadian Flycatcher. Bluish-ash; crown speckled with lanceolate black marks, crowded and generally continuous on the fore- head ; the latter divided lengthwise by a slight yellow line ; short super- ci


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