THE GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET 



Old World Warbler Family — Sylviidoe 



Length: About 4 inches; smaller than the chickadee. 



Male: Olive-green above, grayish-white underneath; crown 

 with a bright red center, bordered on each side by 

 bright yellcnv, and by a black stripe that edges the 

 yellow; a light line over the eye; wings and tail 

 brown; tail forked. 



Female: Like male, but without the red in the center of the 

 yellow-and-black crown. 



Call-note: A weak tzee, tzee, highly pitched. 



Song: William Brewster, in the Auk for 1888, describes the 

 song as follows: [It] "begins with a succession of 

 five or six fine, shrill, high-pitched somewhat falter- 

 ing notes, and ends with a short, rapid, rather ex- 

 plosive warble. The opening notes are given in a 

 rising key, but the song falls rapidly at the end. 

 The whole may be expressed as follows: tzee, tzee, 

 tzee, tzee, ti, ti, ter, ti-ti-ti-ti." 



Habitat: Woodlands, where kinglets are usually found near 

 the ends of branches, of coniferous trees especially. 



Range: Eastern North America. Breeds in the tree-regions of 

 central Canada, south in the Rocky Mts. to northern 

 Arizona, New Mexico, and to Michigan, New York, 

 and mountains of Massachusetts, and in the higher 

 Alleghanies south to North Carolina; winters from 

 Iowa, Ontario, New Brunswick, to northern Florida 

 and Mexico. 



THOUGH the Golden-crowned Kinglet is one of our 

 smallest birds, it braves the rigors of winter in the 

 United States. It may be seen from the latter part 



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