GOLDEN-CROWXED KINGLET 81 



let is often the first thing that attracts our attention to it. 

 Often the repetition of this note is followed by the song, a 

 performance deservedly noted for its sweetness, brightness, 

 and vigor ; it may always be recognized 

 by the high, thin introductory notes and 

 by a phrase of three notes, tee'-di-di re- 

 peated several times toward the end of '%^7>#^^ 

 the song. The song is often uttered in \)T"^ 

 the fall. Fig. 1. Ruby-crowned 



When a male is excited, the feathers ' ^ 



of the crown are slightly raised and show the flame-colored 

 patch from which the term ruby-crowned has been derived. 

 If two males pursue each other, the color actually seems to 

 blaze forth, but often no color at all is visible. The species, 

 nevertheless, may always be distinguished from the Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet by the absence of any marlzings over the 

 eye, the adult Golden-crown always showing at every sea- 

 son the black stripes inclosing the yellow crown. The eye 

 of the Ruby-crown is surrounded by a whitish ring which 

 makes it seem large and prominent for so small a bird. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. Regulus satrapa 



4.07 



Ad. $. — Upper parts gray, with a greenish tinge in strong 

 light ; wing-bars whitish ; crown orange, edged with yellow and 

 black; line over the eye white ; under parts dull whitish. Ad. 9* 

 — Crown-patch entirely yellow edged with black. Im. in summer. 

 Lacks yellow crown-patch, black lines very indistinct. 



Nest, globular, of moss, etc., in an evergreen from six to sixty 

 feet up. Eggs, sometimes as many as ten, dull white, faintly 

 speckled with bufpy. 



The Golden-crowned Kinglet is a common summer resi- 

 dent in the Canadian Zone (see map, p. 15), but throughout 

 the rest of New York and ]^ew England a winter visitant 

 only, arriving in late September and leaving by the end of 



