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The following synopsis will serve as diagnoses of tlie speeies : — 



Head with entire cap in adult plain olivaceous, with a concealed patch of crimson. 



Ilah. Whole of North Aniei-ica; south to Guatemala ; Greenland . . aikndida. 



Head with forehead and line over the eye white, bordered inside by black, and 

 within this again is yellow, embracing an orange patch in the centre of the 

 crown. Ilab. Whole of North America ....... salrapa. 



Head with forehead and line through the eye black, bordered inside by whitish, 

 and within this again by black, embracing an orange-red patch in the centre of 

 the crown. Hob. Banks of Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania . . . cuvieri. 



Regulus satrapa, Lkht. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. 



Regulus satrapa, Litur. Verz. 1823, no. 410. — Dall & Bannister (Alaska). — Lor.n 

 (Vancouver Isl.). — Baird, Birds N. Am. 1859, 227 ; Review, 65. — Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1857, 212 (Orizaba). — Bjedekeu, Cab. Jour. IV, 33, pi. i, fig. 8 (eggs, from Labrador). 

 — Pr. Max. Cab. Jour. 1858, 111. —Cooper & Suckley, P. R. R. R. XII, 11, 1859, 

 174 (winters in \V. TcMTitory). — Lord, R. Art. Inst. WooL 1864, 114 (nest?). — 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 476 (Ti'.\as, winter). — Samuels, 179. — Cooper, Birds Cal. I, 

 32. Sylvia regulus, W'lLS. ; Regulus cristatus, ViElLL. ; R. tricolor, Nm'T., AuD. 



Figures: Aud. Birds Am. II, pi. c.K.x.xii. — Id. Orn. Biog. II, pi. clx.\xiii. — ViEir.L. Ois. 

 Am. Sept. II, pi. cvi. 



Sp. Chak. Al)ove olive-green, brightest on the outer edges of the wing ; tail-feathers 

 tinged with brownish-gray towards the head. Forehead, a line over the eye and a space 

 beneath it, white. Exterior of the crown before and laterally black, embracing a central 

 patch of orange-red, encircled by gamboge-yellow. A dusky space around the eye. 

 Wing-coverts with two yellowish-white bands, the posterior covering a similar band on 

 the quills, succeeded by a broad dusky one. Under parts dull whitish. Length under 

 4 inches; wing, 2.25; tail, 1.80. Female without the orange-red central patch. Young 

 birds without the colored crown. 



Hab. North America generally. On the west coast, not recorded south of Fort Crook. 

 Orizaba, Sclater ; W. Arizona, CouES. 



Specimens of this bird from the far West 

 are much brighter aud more olivaceous above ; 

 tlie markings of the face are also somewhat 

 diHerent in showing less dusky about the eye. 

 These may form a variety olivaceus. 



The Regulus cristatus of Europe, a close ally 

 of our bird, is distinguished by having shorter 

 wings and longer bill; the tlame-color of the jje^ui.^ M,m;,a. 



Iiead is more extended, the black border is 

 almost wanting anteriorly. The back and rump, too, are more yellow. 



Habits. The Golden-crested Kinglet, or "Wren, as it is often called, occurs 

 over nearly the whole of the North Aiuerican continent. It is abundant 

 from the Atlantic to the Taciticaiid tJnoughout the British Provinces, where 

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